National Library of Medicine webpage devoted to Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, Polish immigrant and founder of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, the first hospital in Boston -- and the second hospital in America -- to be run by women physicians and surgeons.
Full text of A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor;" or, A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska ... Edited by Caroline H. Dall ... Boston: Walker, Wise, 1860.