Records, 1848-1966

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Records, 1848-1966

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Minutes, financial records, annual reports, correspondence, etc., of the Ladies' Physiological Institute, which sponsored lectures on health, physiology, and related topics.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Cobb, Eunice Hale, 1803-1880

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Wife of Universalist minister, Sylvanus Cobb; worked with him in missions and pastorates in Waterville, Me. and in Mass. at Malden and East Boston; founding member of Ladies' Physiological Institute. From the description of Diary, 1835-1839, 1853-1856. (New England Historic Genealogical Society). WorldCat record id: 51166461 Eunice Hale (Waite) Cobb was born in Manchester, N.H., in 1803; in 1822 she married Universalist minister, Sylvanus Cobb, and worked with him on preachi...

Hunt, Harriot K. 1805-1875

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Hunt was a physician and reformer in Boston, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1875. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007328 U.S. physician, abolitionist, and suffragette. From the description of Letter, 1851, June 30 : Boston. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31615724 ...

Bronson, Charles P.

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Ladies' Physiological Institute

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The Ladies' Physiological Institute was an outgrowth of five years of meetings (1843-1848) on women's physiology led by one of Boston's first women physicians, Harriot K. Hunt. In 1848 Professor Charles P. Bronson announced a course of lectures for women "who should form themselves into a society for the promotion of useful knowledge among their own sex," offering to present such a group with his medical apparatus if they could raise $1000. Hunt's group met, adopted a constitution, ...