▀PARA ╫PAR@ ` TEXT ` qMosher, Eliza Maria1846╨1928physician and educatorBorn in Cayuga County, New York, on October 2, 1846, Eliza Mosher was educated in local schools and at the Friends╒ Academy in Union Springs, New York. In 1869, over the objections of friends and family, she entered the New England Hospital for Women and Children as an intern apprentice. After a year she was forced to suspend her education to nurse her mother in her last illness, and during that year she also assisted a woman doctor in Boston. In October 1871 she entered the University of Michigan, where she completed the medical course and received her M.D. in 1875. During 1875╨1877 she was in private practice with a classmate in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1877 she was appointed resident physician at the Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women, newly opened at the instigation of Ellen C. Johnson. After establishing hospital facilities in the prison she was responsible for virtually all medical, surgical, and even dental care. In 1880 she was made superintendent of the prison, but an accidental injury in 1883 forced her to resign. She then returned to private practice in Brooklyn, New York, in partnership with Dr. Lucy M. Hall, a Michigan classmate and colleague at the reformatory. During 1883╨1887 they also alternated semesters as resident physician and associate professor of physiology and hygiene at Vassar College. In 1888 Mosher organized a medical training course at the Union Missionary Training Institute in Brooklyn, and the next year she became lecturer on anatomy and hygiene at the Chautauqua, New York, summer school; her association with both institutions was measured in decades. In 1896 President James B. Angell called her to the University of Michigan as dean of women and professor of hygiene. She was the first woman on the university╒s faculty, and she retained her posts, as well as those of director of physical education and resident physician to women students, until ill health forced her resignation in 1902. For the rest of her life she practiced medicine privately in Brooklyn. At various times she lectured at Mount Holyoke College, Adelphi College, Pratt Institute, and the Brooklyn YWCA. In her work in educational institutions Mosher had always been interested in the fields of health maintenance and physical education and fitness, and in private research she investigated medical aspects of posture. She devised an orthopedically sound school desk and chair for children. She was a founder of the American Posture League. She was also president of the Women╒s Medical Society of New York, honorary president of the Medical Women╒s National Association, a founder of the American Women╒s Hospitals Committee, and from 1905 to her death senior editor of the Medical Women╒s Journal. In 1912 she published Health and Happiness: A Message to Girls. She died in New York City on October 16, 1928, &styl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ 6 !I U !I ▐ e !I Ç 5¬ ü !I ¿ 5¬ ⌐ !I
