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Dr Gertrude Anna Goewey Bishop
Information on this page is from History of Homoeopathy in Albany County, NY, 1898. It was transcribed by Jan Jordan. Dr Gertrude Anna GOEWEY BISHOP and Dr Catharine E. GOEWEY were daughters of Jonathan GOEWEY and wife Elizabeth WARNER and were paternal second great-grand-aunts of Jan, who wishes to thank Bill F. GOEWEY and Reba for this data.
DR GERTRUDE A. BISHOP (1838-1921), younger sister of Dr Catharine E. GOEWEY
(1834-1896), page 168,
was born at Greenbush [which is now the city of Rensselaer],
Rensselaer County, N. Y. She received an academic and preparatory education
at the New York Conference Seminary, at Charlotteville, Schoharie County, N. Y.
She pursued the study of medicine under the supervision of Dr H. M. Paine of
Albany and was graduated from the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women
in April 1877.
Dr Bishop came to Albany in the summer of 1878, remaining one year, and in May 1879
removed to 475 Madison Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., where she still [in 1898] resides.
OFFICES AND APPOINTMENTS
While an undergraduate, Dr Bishop spent two years, 1874 and 1875, at the
State Homoeopathic Hospital for the Insane at Middletown, N. Y. She was the
first competent woman assistant appointed at that institution and has the credit
of having inaugurated methods of treating gynaecological cases of congestion
and displacement, thereby contributing materially to the relief and ultimate
recovery of the unfortunate sufferers from reflex conditions, hitherto
misunderstood and neglected.
After graduation in the spring of 1877, she passed, creditably, a competitive
examination prior to an appointment for one term, of six months, to the position
of Resident Physician to the Hospital maintained in connection with the
New York Homeopathic Medical College for Women.
After the expiration of the term of service at the hospital in New York,
she accepted an appointment to the position of Resident Physician at
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., where she remained one year.
While a resident of Albany, Dr Bishop rendered regular and efficient service
at the Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary, thereby contributing materially
to its support and usefulness.
Dr Bishop became a member of the Albany County Homoeopathic Medical Society
in 1878. She has been elected a delegate, for 18 consecutive years,
from that society to the State Homoeopathic Medical Society.
She was appointed, in 1881, Medical Examiner to the American Legion of Honor,
and still [in 1898] holds that office.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO MEDICAL LITERATURE
Dr Bishop has presented and read interesting and suggestive papers
at meetings of the Albany County and Kings County medical societies.
The more important of these papers are the following:
Dr Goewey was married September 15th, 1881 to George Starr BISHOP of Brooklyn, N. Y.
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