182  Helen  Abbott  Michael.  {^^t\\'Xm' 
zu  fester  Crotonsaure,"  which  appeared  in  Volume  46,  page  273,  of 
the  J.f.  pr.  Ck.,  and  1894,  "  Zur  Constitution  des  Phloretins,"  again 
in  the  Berichte  of  the  German  Chemical  Society,  of  which  she  was 
a  member.  The  change  in  subjects  from  those  of  the  years  1886-87 
speaks  for  itself. 
Having  returned  to  America,  as  mentioned  above,  she  delivered 
her  last  public  address  on  a  scientific  subject  in  her  home  city  before 
the  Franklin  Institute,  March  8,  1895,  namely:  "A  Review  of  Recent 
Synthetic  Work  in  the  Class  of  Carbohydrates." 
In  1896  she  went  abroad  again.  Although  she  had  "  resumed 
her  chemical  researches  at  the  Tufts  College  Laboratory,  .  .  . 
tier  interests  were  becoming  enlisted  in  wider  fields."  Instead  of 
writing  about  chemical  professors,  their  laboratories  and  their  stud- 
ies, she  now  writes  about  the  Austrian  peasant  and  kindred 
topics. 
Yet  in  the  Fall  of  1900  she  enters  the  Medical  School  of  Tufts 
College  and  wins  her  doctor's  degree  in  June,  1903. 
Associated  with  another  woman  physician,  she  spent  most  of 
her  spare  time  caring  for  poor  patients,  who  flocked  to  her  private 
house,  transformed  into  a  free  hospital.  Stricken  by  the  grippe,  and 
after  a  trying  illness,  she  passed  away  in  Boston  on  the  29  h  of  No- 
vember, 1904. 
As  a  fitting  close  to  this  rather  objective  review,  the  words  spoken 
at  her  funeral  by  a  friend  of  her  family  may  herewith  be  quoted: 
"  We  cannot  help  recalling  the  universality  of  her  personality  and 
its  many-formed  expression,  of  her  wide  sympathies  and  apprecia- 
tions. We  must  realize  that  as,  after  all,  humanity  is  the  essence  of 
religion,  she  was  deeply  religious.  We  must  mention  the  many 
polished  facets  of  her  jewel-like  mind,  and  how  she  won  distinction 
in  music,  languages,  expression,  both  prose  and  poetic,  in  scientific 
research,  and  finally,  even  in  the  few  months  of  hera  tive  practice, 
in  medicine.  We  are  certain  that  medicine,  being  both  subjective 
and  objective,  and  bringing  her  into  ever  closer  touch  with  humanity 
and  its  needs,  spiritual  and  physical,  was  her  final  and  most  fitting 
expression." 
