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McNutt’s medical diploma and professional certificates including her election as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and her membership in the Medical Society of New York. The only non-professional item is her membership certificate from the Daughters of the American Revolution.
History and Biography
Pioneer American female physician. McNutt received her medical degree from the Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary in 1877. She taught for several years at her alma mater and then at the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital of which she was one of the founders. She was one of the five women who in 1887 established Babies Hospital, now Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, to provide “medical and surgical aid and nursing for sick babies.” She was the first woman elected to the American Neurological Association (1884).
Organization
McNutt’s medical diploma and professional certificates including her election as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and her membership in the Medical Society of New York. The only non-professional item is her membership certificate from the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Item List:
Certificate of Examination, Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary (1876)
Diploma, Doctor of Medicine, Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary (1877)
Membership certificate, Medical Society of New York (1880)
Certificate noting entry into records of New York County as a certified physician (1880)
Certificate of the New York Academy of Medicine certifying her as a Resident Fellow (1888)
Membership certificate, Daughters of the American Revolution (1908)
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Administrative Information
Gift of Sara M. Carter, 2019 (Accession #2019.019)