ABSTRACT
pathic medicine. As a midwife she supported her aged father as well as herself and attempted to found an association to aid unwed mothers. In 1839 she went to Russia, to seek her fortune by earning enough money to become economically independent, but the Russian climate inflicted severe stress on her health. She returned to Paris in 1846, reestablished her midwifery practice, and engaged in various unsuccessful but pioneering attempts to found institutions that would expedite the hiring of wet nurses, aid midwives, and so on.
