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Show 112 did concede that she encountered the idea of studying medicine in 1873-two years earlier. It was in the summer of 1873 that I was first spoken to on the subject of studying Medicine by Sister E. R. Snow. There was much being said upon the subject about this time. President Young favored the idea. In fact it originated with him, to have some of our sisters obtain a medical education. When the subject was broached to me, as being one to step out in this direction, I thought it would be what I would love and delight in, if this knowledge could be obtained here. But the thought of leaving home and loved ones overwhelmed me and swept from me even the possibility of making the attempt.10 Her exposure to the profession predated this by quite a number of years, however. Her grandfather Hawley had partially completed a course on medicine before crossing the plains. And for years after arriving in Utah he received calls from all over the countryside (to which he responded in true pioneer spirit, without charge) to set broken bones and render medical aid. Grandmother, too [Ellis's grandmother] was called upon incessantly to assist mothers at their time of confinement and this condition had direct bearing on the formation of her own ambitions to be of greater service to humanity and the community.11 That Ellis did not refer to this part of her experience - the midwifery - in her story is curious, though she did mention accompanying her grandfather on his charitable bone-setting rounds. Ellis' desire to enter medicine, finding its aegis in those early days, was further fueled, then, by the special urging of Eliza R. Snow, to which we have just alluded. It is possible that on a subconscious level the notion was fermenting like wild yeast cells in a jar of potato water to finally produce the sourdough mix of a painful parting with family and a steely resolution to "not disappoint them in the hopes they have of |