Hardcover book with orange dust jacket under protective plastic casing written by a female doctor about female health and what it means to be a female; book previously at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library and bottom of the spine has the previous classification number; back of the book includes …
Hardcover book with orange dust jacket under protective plastic casing written by a female doctor about female health and what it means to be a female; book previously at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library and bottom of the spine has the previous classification number; back of the book includes various quotes that are made by the author and found in the book; in addition to the table of contents the book has an introduction, 12 chapters and an index; 190 pages beginning at the introduction and finishing at the end of the index.
On the front: "Dr. Marion Hilliard // A // Woman Doctor // Looks At // Love And Life // A Woman's First Baby // What Should I Tell My Children? // Adolescence // Sex in Marriage // Open Letter to Husbands // Women's Fears // The Great Enemy - Fatigue // The Menopause // Old Age // WHAT WOMEN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BEING FEMALE"; "301.42 // Hil // FRONTENAC COUNTY // PUBLIC LIBRARY"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-3
Length
21.6 cm
Width
14.7 cm
Depth
2.0 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Condition Remarks
Plastic is slightly scratched; the first 56 pages have blurred black ink marks at their bottom-left and bottom-right corners; there are also a couple pink marker scribbles on the back cover
Dr. Marion Hilliard graduated in Medicine from the University of Toronto in June 1927. She joined the staff of Women's College Hospital in 1928 as assistant to Dr. Marion Kerr, chief of the department of obstetrics and gynecology. The hospital was then located on Rusholme Road. She was appointed chief, department of obstetrics and gynecology in 1947 until her retirement in 1956. Dr. Hilliard studied abroad at the Queen Charlotte Lying-in-Hospital in London, England and at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, majoring in obstetrics. During a leave of absence in 1934, she went abroad again for post-graduate studies, this time to the Polyklinic in Budapest where she specialized in methods of overcoming sterility in women.
One of Dr. Hilliard's greatest desires was to have Women's College Hospital become a teaching hospital. She was very much involved with the negotiations that finally led to the hospital becoming affiliated with the University of Toronto's department of obstetrics and gynecology. Teaching status was achieved in her department in 1956. Dr. Hilliard retired as head of her department in 1956 in order to meet the university requirements regarding the qualifications of that office.
Dr. Hilliard was well known through her writings and publications: A Women Doctor Looks at Love and Life, Women and Fatigue, and was author of numerous articles for Chatelaine. The proceeds from her publications were turned over to the hospital's fund-raising campaign. When Dr. Hilliard retired in 1956, the Marion Hilliard Trust Fund was established to be applied to any medical project she might designate. She was also presented with a beautiful white leather book containing signatures of over twelve hundred grateful patients.
Dr. Hilliard passed away on July 15, 1958, at the age of 56. By serving in the field of gynaecology, obstetrics, in addition to prenatal and postnatal care of the mother, Dr. Hilliard contributed in many ways to the total health of women.