BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
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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- 
