Mary Blair Moody

Mary Blair Moody Mary Jane Blair Moody (née Blair, August 8, 1837 – August 18, 1919) was an American physician, anatomist and associate editor for the Bulletin of the Buffalo Naturalists' Field Club. She was the first female member of the American Association for Anatomy American Association of Anatomists. Quotes That a malady so widely disseminated and so unmanageable as the tubercular variety of phthisis pulmonalis, or what is popular known as consumption, must, in its beginnings, be microscopic in character, has for years been suspected by students of medicine. That the patient and persistent labors of one individual, Robert Koch Dr. Robert Koch, should at last have at last revealed it, may be almost, but is not quite, beyond belief. The fullness of time for such a discovery had been indicate by the great amount of research, in regard to both the pathology and etiology of the disease. March 1883 Bacillus Tuberculosis Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal, 22 8 352–365 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9401981/ (quote from p. 352) A Song sparrow song-sparrow, Melospitza melodia, with a broken leg past mending, was kept in our house in a cage about a year and a half, fed, bathed, otherwise cared for and occasionally allowed the freedom of a room. A happier, merrier fellow, I never saw. He sang early and late, nearly the year round, moped a few dayss and died. The Taxidermy taxidermist said he was much wasted in flesh, and had lived as long as he could. He was kept as comfortable as possible, and his song seemed purely an expression of happiness. Singing of Birds Science 21 536 12 May 1893 264 https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.ns-21.536.264.a Quotes about Mary Blair Moody In 1874, Mary Moody became the first female student at the Jacobs_School_of_Medicine_and_Biomedical_Sciences School of Medicine at the University of Buffalo, now the State University of New York at Buffalo. ...Moody graduated from medical school in 1876 and worked as a physician in Buffalo, New York Buffalo for approximately nine years. While in Buffalo, she advocated for preventative medicine, lectured at the Women’s Gymnasium, and participated in the establishment of the Dispensary for Women and Children. ...The Dr. Mary B. Moody House house where Moody lived on Grand Avenue in New Haven also is significant. It is an exuberant expression of the Carpenter Gothic style of the late Victorian period and one of the few surviving buildings dating from this period in this section of Fair Haven Heights, New Haven Fair Haven Heights. Lindsay S. Hannah, Dr. Mary B. Moody Challenges Victorian Mores About Women in Medicine February 3, 2023 connecticuthistory.org https://connecticuthistory.org/dr-mary-b-moody-challenges-victorian-mores-about-women-in-medicine/ External links 1876 Victorian Gothic Manor Sells for $458K in New Haven, Connecticut (PHOTOS) November 7, 2020 priceypads.com https://www.priceypads.com/1876-victorian-gothic-manor-sells-for-458k-in-new-haven-connecticut-photos/ Category:1837 births Category:1919 deaths Category:Editors from the United States Category:Physicians from New York (state) Category:Women born in the 19th century Category:Women physicians from the United States