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Show 188 Roy, was 18 months old at the time she left for New York. All five sons reached adulthood, and all married. Romania, like Ellis, had role models within her family who provided incentive for her study of medicine. Five relatives (brothers and cousins principally) were doctors. She went first to New York City where she was enrolled in the Women's Medical College during the winter of 1873-74. After spending the summer of 1874 in Salt Lake City, Romania transferred to the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia. This placed her two years ahead of Ellis in her professional preparation. Romania received her M.D. degree in 1877 (one year prior to Ellis's-so it must have taken her longer) She was then 38. She remained in Philadelphia to study eye and ear diseases (apparently not having the extreme financial pressures Ellis had and not grieving to the degree Ellis did over being parted from her husband and children). "After graduating she remained in Philadelphia and took special courses on the eye and ear at Wills' Hospital and a dispensary on Chestnut Street, conducted by Dr. George Strawbridge. Leaving Philadelphia, she spent a few weeks visiting hydropathic institutions to learn something of the mode of administration and especially of water treatment." 18 She may have begun her practice in Utah the same year Ellis did. The records show that she was set apart for her calling in medicine on the same day Ellis was (cited elsewhere). For this reason it is difficult to create labels such as, "the first (or the second) woman doctor in Utah." Immediately on her arrival home, by request, she commenced giving lectures to ladies and agitated the question of a |