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  • Dorothy Reed (as in Reed-Sternberg cell) was a medical student at Johns Hopkins in the 1890s. Fifty years later, she recorded her unhappy experiences at the lecture on which Mackenzie's paper (footnote 4, above) was based:

    We arrived before the crowd and took front seats in a lecture room on the ground floor under one of the public wards. It was a large room, but soon filled.... The speaker of the evening -- Dr. Mackenzie of the nose and throat department -- was introduced after some preliminary business. He talked an hour on some diseases of the nose. But from the start he dragged in the dirtiest stories I have ever heard, read, or imagined, and when he couldn't say it in English he quoted Latin from sources not usually open to the public.
       Unfortunately, I had majored in Latin at Smith, and 7 years study made most of his quotations understandable to me.... It seems impossible that on such a harmless subject a specialist could make it so pornographic. [He] spent most of his hour discussing the cavernous tissue present in the nasal passages and comparing it with the corpus spongiosa [sic] of the penis.... Roars of laughter filled the room behind us at every dragged-in joke of Dr. Mackenzie and at every allusion to the similarity of the nose to the male reproductive system.
    Good thing she never went to a Pithotomy Show. [101]
  • Recounts some of Dorothy Reed's other bad times at Hopkins, like William Osler telling her to go home before she had even arrived there for her first day. [102]
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    (1) An allergy to sex?.
  Wald JA.   JAMA. 1988;260:401.
    (2) Histology. 5th ed.
  Ham AW. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1965: 748.
    (3) [This footnote was a comment, not a reference.]
    (4) The physiological and pathological relations between the nose and the sexual apparatus of man.
  Mackenzie JN.   Bull Johns Hopkins Hosp. 1898;9:10-17.
    (5a) Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine.
  Gould GM, Pyle WL. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1896: 511.
    (5b) Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine.
  Gould GM, Pyle WL. New York: Julian Press, 1956: 511.
    (6) Dear Doctor Hip Pocrates.
  Schoenfeld E. New York: Grove Press, 1968: 8-10.
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    101.A woman ahead of her time.
  Anonymous.   Hopkins Medical News. 1993(Fall):38-42.
    102.Three women at Johns Hopkins: private perspectives on medical coeducation in the 1890s.
  Shrager JB.   Ann Intern Med 1991 Oct 1;115(7):564-9.  Pubmed  Similars
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