1874

More than 150 women register for medical study in universities of Switzerland and France. This number swelled in the 1880s and 90s (Bonner, 54-56). Founding of London Medical College for Women, led by Jex-Blake (131-34). Halsted enrolls at College of Physicians and Surgeons, and begins internship at Bellevue Hospital in 1876 (Imber, 21ff.), and heads to Europe (Paris briefly, then Vienna) in 1878, then back to NY in Sept 1880 (31-35), then to Butler Hospital (RI) in 1886 for treatment of his cocaine addiction. There his “paranoia and agitation inspired his alienists to pull out a syringe filled with morphine and inject its soothing balm into his arm” (Markel II, 142). He goes with Welch to Hopkins at end of 1886 but returns to Butler Hospital for nine months in 1887 owing to cocaine relapse.