Mary Putnam Jacobi, of American descent, was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris. She also obtained a doctor’s degree from a university in the United States. It was she who took up the gauntlet thrown by Professor Clark and proved through numerous studies that “menstruation by its very nature is nothing that implies the necessity or even usefulness of rest”. The work won the Boylston Award at Harvard and solidified the position of women with irrefutable evidence.
AUTHOR: mgr inż. Renata Kowalczyk
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