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Up for sale a VERY RARE!"1st Johns Hopkins Female Professor" Florence R. Sabin Hand Written 3 Page Letter Dated 1943.This item is certified authentic by ToddMueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate ofAuthenticity.
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FlorenceRena Sabin(November 9, 1871– October 3, 1953) was anAmericanmedical scientist. She was a pioneer forwomen in science; she was the first woman to hold a fullprofessorship atJohns Hopkins School ofMedicine, the first woman elected to theNationalAcademy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department attheRockefellerInstitute for Medical Research.During her years of retirement, she pursued asecond career as apublic healthactivistin Colorado, and in 1951 received theAlbert Lasker PublicService Awardfor this work. On November 9, 1871, Serena Sabingave birth to her youngest daughter, Florence Rena Sabin, inCentral City, Colorado.Florence's mother was a schoolteacher who later died frompuerperal fever(sepsis) in 1878. Her father, George K.Sabin, was a mining engineer living and working on site with his family. Shortly after her mother's death, Florence andher sister (Mary) moved in with their Uncle Albert in Chicago before relocatingto Vermont with their paternal grandparents. Uncle Albert was a tremendousinfluence on Florence, and from her relationship with him, she developed a loveof nature and a keen interest in books and music. The Sabin girls soon movedwith their uncle to an old family farm in Vermont. Florence became veryinterested in the life story of Levi Sabin, an ancestor who had graduated frommedical school in 1798. Florence’s father had always wanted to be a doctor, butthe obligations of mining overwhelmed him, and his thoughts of a medical careerslowly disappeared. But Florence began to secretly harbor her father’s dream.In 1885 Florence enrolled atVermont Academy(and graduated in 1889), where herscientific interests were finally allowed to develop. Throughout her childhoodSabin had intentions of becoming a pianist, however, she was never musicallytalented, causing her to shift her focus on a future in science during her timeatVermont Academy, SaxtonsRiver, VT. Sabin earned her bachelor's degree fromSmith Collegein 1893. For two years she taught highschool mathematics in Denver followed by one year of zoology at Smith as ameans to finance her first year of graduate school.In 1896, Sabin enrolled at theJohnsHopkins University School of Medicineas one of fourteen womenin her class. The school opened in 1893 and was co-ed from the beginningbecause of an early donor's contingency which required the admittance of femalestudents. Whileat Hopkins, Sabin’s observational skills and perseverance in the laboratorycaught anatomistFranklin P. Mall'sattention. Mall inspired Sabin by helping narrow her focus onto two projectswell regarded by scientists[5]and foundational to her future research andconsequent legacy. The first project was to produce a three-dimensional modelof a newborn baby’s brain stem which became the focus of the textbook,AnAtlas of theMedullaand Midbrain(1901).The second project involved the embryological development of the lymphaticsystem which asserted that the lymphatic system is formed from the embryo’sblood vessels and not other tissues. Sabingraduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1900. Upongraduation, Sabin obtained an internship atJohns Hopkins Hospitalunderphysician SirWilliam Osler. Following aone-year internship with Osler, she won a research fellowship in the Departmentof Anatomy at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where she continued to work withMall. Shortly thereafter, a Fellowship in the Department of Anatomy at JohnsHopkins was created for her. In 1902 she began to teach in the Department ofAnatomy at Johns Hopkins. By 1905 she was promoted to associate professor andfinally appointed professor of embryology and histology in June 1917, the firstwoman to become a full professor at a medical college. In 1921, Sabin was namedthe first female president of theAmerican Association ofAnatomists. She continued her research on the origins of blood,blood vessels, blood cells, the histology of the brain, and the pathology andimmunology of tuberculosis at Hopkins.In 1924, Sabin’s work on the origins of bloodvessels earned her membership in theNational Academy ofScience.In 1925, Sabin left Johns Hopkins after completing her research amidstinstitutional discrimination and her desire to research full time. In September1925 she became head of the Department of Cellular Studies at theRockefeller InstituteforMedical Research inNew York City. Herresearch focused on thelymphatic system, blood vessels and cells, andtuberculosis. In 1925, she was voted into the National Academyof Science. She was the first woman to gain membership in this prestigious bodyand would remain the lone female member for the next 20 years. In1926, she joined the research committee of theNational TuberculosisAssociation. The committee's purpose was to consolidate all of thetuberculosis research taking place with the hope of controlling the diseaseproactively.While here, Sabin devoted her research to immune cells,monocytes in particular, which developed into other cells. Sabin spent herfinal years at the institute determining the effects imposed by foreignsubstances and their consequent formation of antibodies. In 1938,Sabin left her position at Rockefeller Institute and moved back to Colorado forretirement.