Mary Blair Moody

"That a malady so widely disseminated and so unmanageable as the tubercular variety of phthisis pulmonalis, or what is popular known as consumption, must, in its beginnings, be microscopic in character, has for years been suspected by students of medicine. That the patient and persistent labors of one individual, , should at last have at last revealed it, may be almost, but is not quite, beyond belief. The fullness of time for such a discovery had been indicate by the great amount of research, in regard to both the and of the disease."

"A , with a broken leg past mending, was kept in our house in a cage about a year and a half, fed, bathed, otherwise cared for and occasionally allowed the freedom of a room. A happier, merrier fellow, I never saw. He sang early and late, nearly the year round, moped a few dayss and died. The said he was much wasted in flesh, and had lived as long as he could. He was kept as comfortable as possible, and his song seemed purely an expression of happiness."

"In 1874, Mary Moody became the first female student at the . ... Moody graduated from medical school in 1876 and worked as a physician in for approximately nine years. While in Buffalo, she advocated for preventative medicine, lectured at the Women’s Gymnasium, and participated in the establishment of the Dispensary for Women and Children. ... The also is significant. It is an exuberant expression of the style of the late Victorian period and one of the few surviving buildings dating from this period in this section of ."

"Lindsay S. Hannah,"