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682: 199: 31: 701: 663: 273:, becoming one of the first female gynecologists in the United States. She developed a plan for mass housing centered on a common service area for cooperative housekeeping to reduce drudgery for women. Later, she became Professor of Women's Diseases at the 816: 741: 320:
Safford married James Blake in 1872 and adopted two daughters, Margarita and Gladys. After her marriage, she used the name Mary Jane Safford-Blake. The couple divorced in 1880.
806: 239: 219:, where she became known as the "Cairo Angel". It was there that she met "Mother" Bickerdyke, who trained her as a nurse. In 1862, she accompanied the army of 340: 781: 801: 821: 811: 766: 761: 324: 235:. "Worn down" and frail, she left for Europe in July 1862. After visits to Great Britain and Ireland her party spent the winter in Paris and Italy. 776: 467: 736: 726: 274: 227:, where she comforted and ministered to the wounded. Later, she served aboard a pair of military hospital ships on the Mississippi, the 786: 746: 591: 796: 367: 751: 791: 771: 645: 499: 756: 731: 277:, where she was one of only two professors of gynecology. In 1875 she was one of the first women to be elected to the 667: 389:
Papers, read at the second congress of women, Chicago, October 15, 16, and 17, 1874 : a plea for fallen women
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and his family. She died on December 8, 1891, aged 56. Safford is remembered on the
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Dress-Reform: a series of lectures on dress as it affects the health of women
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She retired in 1886 due to poor health and spent her later years in
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Fischer, Leroy H., "Cairo's Civil War Angel, Mary Jane Stafford."
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A Century of Homeopaths: Their Influence on Medicine and Health
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After the war, Safford studied medicine, graduating from the
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in the United States and was the first woman to perform an
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area. Her Boston home was located at 5 Percival Street on
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Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia
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She was a proponent of 29: 18: 341:Women's Educational and Industrial Union 446: 807:19th-century American women physicians 532:Sammarco, Anthony (November 4, 1994). 462: 460: 458: 456: 454: 452: 450: 7: 552: 550: 275:Boston University School of Medicine 327:movement and counted the activists 207:(between circa 1860 and circa 1865) 142:treating the sick and injured near 14: 782:People from Shawneetown, Illinois 683:Works by or about Mary J. Safford 512:on December 20, 2016 – via 498:Howley, Kathleen (June 5, 1999). 35:1867 engraving of Mary J. Safford 802:19th-century American physicians 699: 661: 640:. University of Nebraska Press. 468:"Safford, Mary Jane (1834–1891)" 822:Boston School Committee members 812:New York Medical College alumni 767:Women in the United States Army 762:Women in the American Civil War 636:Massey, Mary Elizabeth (1994). 777:People from Hyde Park, Vermont 170:Mary Jane Safford was born in 1: 612:Boston Women's Heritage Trail 421:Health and strength for girls 368:Boston Women's Heritage Trail 242:in 1869. She also studied at 323:Safford was involved in the 737:People from Cairo, Illinois 727:American Civil War medicine 698:(public domain audiobooks) 578:Davidson, Jonathan (2014). 284:As a physician in Boston's 262:, the first American woman 838: 138:, she worked closely with 787:American Civil War nurses 558:"Mary Jane Safford Blake" 541:Dorchester Community News 28: 747:Physicians from Illinois 692:Works by Mary J. Safford 674:Works by Mary J. Safford 252:University of Heidelberg 797:American women surgeons 360:Tarpon Springs, Florida 279:Boston School Committee 244:Vienna General Hospital 124:Mary Jane Safford-Blake 83:Tarpon Springs, Florida 23:Mary Jane Safford-Blake 752:Physicians from Boston 638:Women in the Civil War 474:. Gale Research. 2002. 208: 158:. 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John Sartain
Hyde Park, Vermont
Tarpon Springs, Florida
Nurse
Physician
Educator
Humanitarian
nurse
Union Army
American Civil War
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Fort Donelson
Cairo, Illinois
gynecologists
ovariotomy
Boston University
Hyde Park, Vermont
Vermont
Illinois
Montreal
Shawneetown

Mathew Brady
Civil War
Cairo, Illinois
Ulysses S. Grant
Battle of Shiloh
New York Medical College and Hospital for Women
Vienna General Hospital

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