/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Robinson, Mary N. Title: Dr. Albert Dufresne : a man of mystery / by Mrs. Mary N. Robinson. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Dufresne, Albert, 1748-1823. Physicians--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Lancaster (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1909

presidency, and it was published in the first volume of the Journal of the AMA. Because it describes so well the education of physicians in the early nineteenth century, it is reprinted here with the kind permission of the American Medical Association. It should be noted that no fewer than nine physicians

Women in Medicine in Lancaster County By Mary Ellen Smith Meiser, M.D. In order to discuss women physicians in Lancaster County we should first talk about women as physicians. As you know this was absolutely unheard of 130 years ago. It was in 1848, when a school teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio, while