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    134 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    known to our readers . Her predecessor , Elizabeth Blaekwell , was born in England in 1712 . Her husband becoming bankrupt by

    extraordinary reverses , she studied midwifery , in the hope of supporting her family . The jealousy of the faculty hindered her

    success . She was , however , encouraged to print a large work on medical botany at the early age of twenty-four . It is stated on

    the _authority of a physician , that this work , published in 1736 , with large plates , in three volumes folio , at London , was the first

    of its kind in any country . " To _JVIorandi , born at Bologna in 1716 , and Mademoiselle

    Biheron , born at Paris in 1730 , is owing the invention of those wax preparations or models which in Signor _Sarti's beautiful figures

    have almost reached perfection . Morandi , in 1758 , was raised to the chair of anatomy in the University of Bologna ; while her

    collection of waxwork was thought worthy of a visit hj Joseph II . Says Mrs . Dall : —

    the " The stream nineteenth of history century will depend is not y very et gone much , and upon the the tribute women it shall of to bear -day to . Ten have already contributed their mite to its medical glory . "

    Of these ten , Drs . Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell and Dr . Marie Zakrzewska are the most eminent . To Dr . Elizabeth Blackwell

    our readers have already been introduced in an admirable biography written by her sister ; and the second book at the head of

    this notice , "A Practical Illustration of Woman ' s Bight to Labor , " is in fact a biographical sketch of Dr . Marie Zakrzewska , in the

    form of a highly interesting letter from herself . We shall give the heads of this sketch , in the hope of sending our readers to the book

    itself , in which they will find details of the deepest interest to all students of human nature .

    Marie Zakrzewska was born in Berlin , on the 6 th of September , 1829 , and was the eldest of a family of five sisters and one brother .

    Her early childhood passed happily , nature having endowed her with good humour and a cheerful _disjDOsition . Sent to a primary

    school at £ ye years old , she evinced a strong will of her own : — insisting that "Refusing I was on not following to worth obey y arbitrary my to be own in with demands which will my when alone p without laymates I the knew receiving , and I was and when ri some g irls ht I , reached I reason was , told and the ht

    hi separatel ghest class y , I was in the separated school , from the latter , and wa boys s placed g with were the boy taug s by of punishmentreceiving instructions with them from menwhile the

    I g way irl joined s in the the other boys class in , all were their taug _sjDorts ht b ; y sliding women and . Here snow I -balling found man with , y them friends in . ball in With them

    frank winter , , and and self running -possessed and ; p while laying irls with the felt summer girl like s I was . quiet , shy them , and I was awkward merry . ,

    I never made friends with the g , or approaching . " We give this extract as throwing light upon "the after friendly

    relations of Marie Zakrzewska with the medical students of the colleges and _hosj ) itals through which she passed " , and of which she

    herself thus speaks .

    134 Notices Of Books.

    134 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/62/