PAR@ ` ╖TEXT ` ⌐Lozier, Clemence Sophia Harned1813╨1888physician and reformerBorn in Plainfield, New Jersey, on December 11, 1813, Clemence Harned was educated in the local academy. In 1829 or 1830 she married Abraham W. Lozier, a New York City builder. When his health failed a short time later, she opened a girls╒ school in their home; from 1832 to 1843 she taught some 60 girls each year. Her teaching of anatomy, physiology, and hygiene reflected a long-standing interest of her own, and during that period she also studied medicine with an elder brother who was a physician. In 1844 she moved to Albany, New York, whence she later moved to Webster, New York. During the later 1830s and the 1840s she was active in various reform groups concerned with prostitution and its related social problems. In 1849 she entered the Central Medical College of Rochester, and in 1853 she graduated from its successor, the Syracuse Medical College. She established a highly successful and lucrative practice in New York City, specializing in obstetrics and surgery. Beginning in 1860 she lectured regularly on physiology, anatomy, and hygiene, and the success of that venture led her to obtain, not without a struggle, a charter for the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, a homeopathic institution that opened in November 1863. It was the first women╒s medical school in the state. She served as president and clinical professor of diseases of women and children until 1867, when in a reorganization she became dean and professor of gynecology and obstetrics. By 1888 the college had graduated more than 200 physicians. Dr. Lozier had an abiding interest in the suffrage movement. She contributed to the support of Susan B. Anthony╒s weekly Revolution and served as president of the New York City Woman Suffrage Society from 1873 to 1886 and of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1877╨1878. She was also active in movements for prison reform, sanitary reform, international arbitration, civil rights for African-Americans and Native Americans, temperance, and other causes. Notable among her few writings was the pamphlet Child-Birth Made Easy, 1870. She died in New York City on April 26, 1888. &styl ` ! ¬ 5¬ ) 5¬ A !I ô 5¬ ö !I \ 5¬ ] !I ╜ !I ▐ ═ !I ╫ !I ß !I ^ !I s !I link ` HYPR ╜ ═
