New-York tribune., 1906-06-12
DIR. NARY JACOBI DEAD.
ven Known Woman Physician
Ends -Four Years of Suffering.

AFTER four years Of invalid life, DR. Mary Put
nam jacob. probably the foremost phys-
cian OF this country died at her home in East fifth
street early Sunday morning. Her husband, DR..
Abraham jacob and the other members Of her
tarfaIy were present
Although DR.. Jacob had lived in retirement for
several years she had always been a well known
nsure In public and semi-publio life While not
the pioneer woman physician. like DR.. Emily Black
well she was the first to insist that the woman
practitioner should be at least the equal Of the
man physician. To place herself the high plane
sue sought she overcame innumerable obstacles
anu oecame the first woman TO be admitted to the
H@cole oe Medicine OF Paris. from which she was
graduated in 1Sn. Dr. Garret Anderson. of Lon
oon who entered the school later was graduated
a year earlier. thus becoming the first woman TO
receive the diploma OF the famous school
br' Jacob was the daughter OF George Palmer Put
d~n ano Victorine Haven Putnam. and the eldest of
ten children She born in London in 1912 and was
brought TO this country when she was five wears
oid' the family settling in Staten Island. A short
urne later her father founded the publishing house
now known as G. P. Putnan's Sons
t>oInIns IN the early education of the little En-
gnsh girl suggested that she would one day become
one OF the foremost physicians of the country She
was allowed much latitude the choice of her
sons which were mostly taught by her mother and
various tutors. At this time she displayed con-
siderable literary ability writing a story Hair
Chalns' at sixteen which was published by The
Atlantic Monthly"
At this time she began tho st,,dv of madeleine
more or less against the wishes of her family She
went finally TO the Womans Medical College in
philadelphia in 1862 Two years later she got her
degree When she left the college she heard that her
prother, George Haven Putnam lay dying In New
Orleans. Disregarding all risk and discomfort she
set out for the Southern city and did not leave
until she had nursed him back to health Then she
resumed her work After being an interne at the
New England Hospital in Boston she went 10 Paris
har 1TRk Q0A han raH h-r
doubted ability. won the applause and admiration of
the French her successful entry into the Ecoie de
Medecine encouraging scores Of other women. In
stead Of taking a postgraduate course, she began
at the beginning doing all her work over again.
finally being graduated in 1870 She stayed in Paris
all through the siege. pursuing her academic work
Then she came back to this country. and two
years later in 1873. was married to DR.. Abraham
Jacob. He had fed TO this country with Carl
Schurz. by whom he had been employed as sec
retary. both with a price their heads for their
work for German liberty.
DR.. Mary Jacobs work made her prorni-
nent figure. Medical brochures, monographs. es-
says philosophical subjects. poetry and stories
all flowed from her pen. In 1876 she became pres-
dent Of the Association for the Medical Education
OF Women and the first woman ever elected
to membership in the New York Academy of Medi-
cine and sent to the State Medical Association as
a delegate. She the famous Boylston prize
at Harvard in 1876 with paper on The Question
or Rest for women during Menscruaton- For
ten years she was professor of materta medica at
the Woman's Medical College of the New York In
lrmary for Women and Children and later oecu-
pied the same chair for three years al the Post
Graduate Medical School. At Mount Sinai Hos
pitaI she was dispensary physician for twelve
years, and visiting physician at St Marks
and the Inffrrnary for Women ana Children.
Her works on medical subjects have long been
recognized authoritative on whatever subject
she discussed. Chief among such works are. be,
sides the Boylston essay. THE Value Of Life
'Coid Pack and Massage in Anemia' and Hys-
terra Brain Tumor and Other Essays" She also
wrote Studies in Primary Dducation,' Comm On
Sense Applied to Woman Suffrage and many other
articles in medical and educational Journals.
Although always q believer in the theory OF
woman Suffrage DR.. jacob did not take active
interest in It until comparatively late in life In
1894 she began TO make speeches IN pubic on the
pointed to obtain the passage of c4nstitutional
amendment allowing women 70 vote, she MADE an
address which has been described as the most eIo-
quent and logical ever made on the subject .r
The funeral which will be strictly private, VIII oe
held to-day at the Jacob home, NO. ID East 4'th
street The burial will be in this city.