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Dr. Adeline M. Willis Weed

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Adeline M. Willis Weed, known as Ada M. Weed, was known for her medical practice of hydropathic medicine.

Biography[edit]

Adeline M. Willis Weed, was born Adeline M. Willis in Marion, Illinois in 1837.[1]

She started at the the New York Hygeio-Therapeutic college in 1856, and while there she met Gideon A. Weed whom she married in 1857. The wedding description in Water-Cure Journal indicates they both graduated and had their M.D. degrees, and they were "now united in hands, hearts, fortunes, and diplomas".[2] Following the wedding they moved to California where they planned to practice hydropathic medicine.[2] Weed would go on to publish about her experience with water-cures and travel.[3](p72)

Weed was also known as an advocate for women's rights, lecturing about the possibility of women being doctors and lawyers in 1858.[4]

Dr. Adeline M. Willis received her medical training at Rush Medical College, from which he graduated in 1856.[5][6]

Adeline and Gideon traveled to the west coast via the isthmus of Panama and practiced in California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington State. Adaline and Gideon were the first few to practice it in the United States and settled in Seattle in 1870. Dr. Adeline M. Weed was the first female physician in Oregon.

Dr. and Dr. Weed were survived by a daughter, Miss Mabel Weed, who was connected with the Carnegie Library of Berkeley, and Ben Weed, who achieved fame as the discoverer of the natural amphitheater back of Berkley University, which for years was called "Ben Weed's Theater" and is now the Greek theater.[7] archive URL[8][9]

Another possible source[10](might be the same as this source[11]) and here[12] and here[13]

Adeline M. Weed died September 8, 1910, in Berkeley, California.[14][1]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Weed, Adaline M.W. (March 1861). "Water-cure travel on the Pacific Coast". Water-Cure Journal. 31 (3): 40.

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Haarsager, Sandra (1997). Organized womanhood : cultural politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1840-1920. Internet Archive. Norman : University Of Oklahoma Press. pp. 76–78. ISBN 978-0-8061-2974-7. Search this book on
  2. 2.0 2.1 "A wedding on hydropathic principles". 24 (5). Internet Archive. Open Court Publishing Co. 1857: 107.
  3. Cayleff, Susan E. (1987). Wash and be healed : the water-cure movement and women's health. Internet Archive. Philadelphia : Temple University Press. ISBN 978-0-87722-462-4. Search this book on
  4. "Weekly Oregon Statesman". Newspapers.com. November 9, 1858. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
  5. Stedman, Thomas L., ed. "News of the Week: Obituary Notes", p. 783, Medical Record (journal), May 20, 1905. William Wood & Company, 1905. Accessed September 10, 2015. "Dr. GIDEON A. WEED, a pioneer physician of the Pacific Coast, and a man who, as twice Mayor of Seattle, and a prominent citizen of Washington State, did much toward the upbuilding of the Northwest, died at his home in Berkeley, Cal., on April 21. He was born in New Providence, N. J., in 1833 and was graduated from the Rush Medical College Chicago, in 1856."
  6. "Voters re-elect Gideon A. Weed as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 9, 1877". historylink.org. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
  7. https://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Greek-theatre-16502399.php
  8. "Wayback Machine" (PDF). web.archive.org. 2022-11-29. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
  9. "Wayback Machine" (PDF). web.archive.org. 2022-11-29. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 29, 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
  10. Edwards, G. Thomas (1986). "Dr. Ada M. Reed: Northwest reformer". Experiences in a promised land : essays in Pacific Northwest history. Internet Archive. Seattle : University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-96328-0. Search this book on
  11. Edwards, G. Thomas (1977). "Dr. Ada M. Weed: Northwest Reformer". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 78 (1): 4–40. ISSN 0030-4727.
  12. Peterson del Mar, David (2003). Oregon's promise : an interpretive history. Internet Archive. Corvallis : Oregon State University Press. pp. 93–94. ISBN 978-0-87071-558-7. Search this book on
  13. People in history : an index to U.S. and Canadian biographies in history journals and dissertations. Internet Archive. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO. 1988. pp. 186–187. ISBN 978-0-87436-493-4. Search this book on
  14. "Mrs. Adeline Weed Dies". The San Francisco Examiner. 1910-09-09. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-11-29.


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