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267:, which Preston had established while Cleveland was in Europe. The goal of the hospital was to provide patient care experience for medical students at the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, as they often faced discrimination in trying to gain clinical experiences at other hospitals. In 1872, Cleveland became the dean of the medical school upon Preston's death. Cleveland established training programs for nurses at the college, and she started one of the earliest programs to train nursing assistants. Her health was tenuous, which led to her resignation as dean in 1874. 31: 307:
Cleveland's legacy was that of a physician who combined medical acumen with femininity and a down-to-earth demeanor. These factors may have helped her succeed in a male-dominated field because she was not seen as trying to upset the social order between men and women.
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later that year. She was buried next to Ann Preston at Fair Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. She was survived by her husband and by a son, Arthur Horton Cleveland, who also became a physician. She was succeeded as chair of obstetrics by her mentee, Dr.
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minister at the same time that Emmeline studied at Oberlin. The couple both wanted to work as missionaries, but Giles became ill, eliminating the possibility of mission work. To support them, Emeline opened a medical practice in
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that had led to a large fluid collection within the abdomen. One of Cleveland's students wrote the journal article, making a concluding point that Cleveland's work was evidence that women could make good surgeons.
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and several local Quaker women paid for Cleveland to go to Paris and London to continue her studies in obstetrics, gynecological surgery and hospital administration.
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In Philadelphia, Giles Cleveland found work as a teacher. A little over a year after their arrival, he became seriously ill again, and he was left partially
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who emigrated to the United States in the 1630s. Cleveland was the second of eight siblings. When Cleveland was two years old, her family moved to a farm in
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Department for the Insane, marking one of the first times that a woman had become a physician for a large public hospital. She died of
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While in medical school, Cleveland had married a childhood friend of hers, Giles Butler Cleveland. Giles Cleveland had studied at
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in Philadelphia, Paris, and London. By 1872, she was the dean of the Woman's Medical College. Cleveland suffered from
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In 1875, an article was published in a regional medical journal regarding Cleveland's performance of an
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and unable to work. Cleveland stayed at the Female Medical College until 1860, when her colleague
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A New and Untried Course: Woman's Medical College and Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1998
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in the United States. She became one of the first woman physicians associated with a large
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Women Medical Doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary
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Returning to Philadelphia in 1862, Cleveland became chief resident at the
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and graduated three years later. She had begun corresponding with
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James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S. (1971).
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Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary
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in the United States, and she established one of the first
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In 1878, Cleveland was named a gynecologist for the
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By late 1856, she was invited to teach 171:for the last several years of her life. 321: 214:Pennsylvania Ladies' Missionary Society 157:Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania 104:Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania 625:19th-century American women physicians 242:Female Medical College of Philadelphia 595:19th-century deaths from tuberculosis 401: 399: 373: 371: 369: 367: 365: 363: 179:Cleveland was born Emeline Horton in 7: 615:People from Madison County, New York 436:Medicine and Healers Through History 635:Tuberculosis deaths in Pennsylvania 148:training programs in the country. 339:Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia 14: 630:19th-century American physicians 590:People from Ashford, Connecticut 265:Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia 198:In 1850, Cleveland enrolled at 484:(9): 100–102. 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Ashford, Connecticut
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Medicine
Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Obstetrics and gynecology
physician
abdominal
gynecological surgery
public hospital
nursing assistant
Oberlin College
Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania
obstetrics and gynecology
hospital administration
tuberculosis
Ashford, Connecticut
Puritans
Madison County, New York
missionary
Oberlin College
Sarah Josepha Hale
Godey's Lady's Book
Pennsylvania Ladies' Missionary Society
missionary physicians
Oberlin Theological Seminary
Presbyterian
Oneida Valley, New York
anatomy
Female Medical College of Philadelphia

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