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sician was the logical outcome of her career. She had felt 

 naturally dissatisfied with her incomplete excursion into the 

 fascinating field of medicine, interrupted as it had been by ill 

 health, family reasons, and the claim of chemical research. 

 She now began to hear the renewed call to go further into its 

 luring mysteries. 



Many honorary distinctions had been conferred on Mrs. 

 Michael. In 1887 she was elected a member of the American 

 Philosophical Society, one of the eight women who, in more 

 than a century, had received that mark of high consideration. 

 In 1893 she became a corresponding member of the Phil- 

 adelphia College of Pharmacy. Eight years later she was 

 made an honorary member in recognition of her valuable 

 scientific work in connection with plant chemistry. She 

 was also a fellow of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, a member of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, and of 

 the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft of Berlin. 



In spite of serious ill health, which had culminated in a 

 severe surgical operation, which she resolutely and philoso- 

 phically faced and bore, with no fear as to its outcome, she 

 entered the Medical School of Tufts College in the autumn 

 of 1900, and after passing all of her examinations with very 

 high marks, and winning the admiration of her instructors, 

 she was graduated with her title of Doctor on the seventeenth 

 of June, 1903. 



Even before she had received her license to practice she 

 had transformed a private house into a beautifully arranged 

 free hospital, which bore an inscription dedicating it to the 

 memory of her Mother, and, in association with another woman 

 physician in regular standing, she spent a good part of her 

 spare time in caring for the poor patients who flocked to it for 

 advice and relief. With the same sincerity of purpose she had 

 spent the summer of 1902 in Europe, and visited the most 

 prominent hospitals and clinics in London. 



Amid her maturing plans for an ever- widening activity she 

 was stricken with an attack of the grippe, superinduced by 

 too great assiduity in caring for her poor patients. She her- 



