The cure for women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the challenge to Victorian medicine that changed women's lives forever

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Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own first-rate medical schools and hospitals. Their success spurred a chilling backlash from elite, white male physicians who were obsessed with eugenics and the propagation of the white race.

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