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- BookMary Bennett Ritter, MD ; introduction by Gesa E. Kirsch ; edited by Gesa Kirsch.Summary: "Mary Bennet Ritter was a farmer's daughter who in the 1880s defied all conventions to pursure her passion: to receive medical training and become a physician. Ritter's memoir is a riveting account of her accomplishments and a revealing peek into an earlier era through her keen sense of observation, humor, savvy, and her courage to challenge gender norms. It is filled with adventures--house calls via horse and buggy rides through the dark streets of Berkeley, a spurned lover's suicide, a near drowning at Pacific Grove Beach, one of the first automobile rides across rugged California dirt roads, intercontinental rail travel, and voyages to the Far East. As the story unfolds, readers encounter the movers and shakers of the time--University of California presidents and families of wealth and influence, including the Scrippses, the Hearsts, and the Rockefellers"--Back cover.
Contents:
Childhood memories
Youthful days
Undercurrents
An interlude
Medical student and interne
First years in Berkeley
The "ply-wood" of life
University interests
Medical practice
Keeping pace with a biologist
The quest for a southern site
A transitional half-decade
Pioneering in a biological laboratory
The half decade 1913-1918
My war work
The turning of a long lane
Last years in La Jolla
The other side of the world
The South Sea Isles
Retirement
Washington days
Europe again
Sunset and afterglow.