Excerpts regarding Mary Pauline Root's missionary work in India

Excerpts regarding Mary Pauline Root's work as a medical missionary in India. Included is a letter from Mary Elizabeth, librarian of the Foreign department of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, to Dorothea L. Smith, niece of Root, concerning the works describing Root's missions. Mary Pauline Root graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1883. She was the first woman to test for and receive an internship at the Blockley Hospital (now Philadelphia General Hospital) in 1884 and the first female doctor to be sent as a medical missionary by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1885