JACOBI, MARY PUTNAM ( 1812— ). An Ameri t an physician, born in London, England, the daughter of George P. Putnam, of New York City. The first woman graduated from the New York College of Pharmacy. in 18112, she was also the first woman graduated from the Women's College in Philadelphia. in 1864. After teaching in New Orleans, and writing for a year, site went to Paris and engaged in the further study of medicine. After eighteen months passed in the hospitals of Paris. she was admitted by the Mnister of Public Instruction to the Beale de IThRlecine, and was graduated therefrom in 1ST 1, receiving the second prize for her thesis, She returned to New York and began practice at once, also entering upon the duties of lecturer on therapeutics in the new Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary. She was the first woman admitted to the New York medical societies and to the American 'Aledical Associa tion. In 1873 she was married to the physician Abraham Jacobi (q.v.). In 1851. upon the found ing of the New York Post-Graduate Aledical School, she became clinical professor of diseases of children. In 1S74 she organized an association
for the advancement of the medical education of women, of which she became president. Besides being a visiting physician to the New York In firmary, Dr. Putnam-Jacobi has been for several years a visiting physician to Saint Mark's Hos pital.. She is a member of several medical societies. and a writer on many medical topics. She secured the Boylston prize of Harvard University in 18711 for an original essay. In 1891 she contributed a paper on the history of women physicians in this country to the volume "Women's Work in America." in which, amid the bibliography of writings by American female physicians, she men tions over forty productions of her own pen. Iler published works include: The Question of Rest for Women During .11enstenetion (1877) ; Acute Fatty Degeneration. of Nem-Born (1878) ; The Value of Life (1879) ; ('old Peek and Anemia (1880) ; The Prophylaxis of Insanity Hysteria and Other Essays (1585) Common ,Sense Applied to Woman's Suffrage (1894). Sec JACOBI, ABRAHAM.