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1873

Lancet turns against Lister (Truax, 190). Publication of Edward H. Clarke’s Sex in Education, or A Fair Chance for Girls, a best-seller claiming that higher education was sapping reproductive development of talented girls (M-S2, 121). Hungarian Arpad Gerster sails to New York and begins practice in Brooklyn (Gerster, 147ff.).