1872 Dr. Emil Noeggerath publishes his research on the effects of gonorrhea in women. 1873 The Comstock Act bans the mailing of “obscene” materials—including contraceptive devices and information on contraception—through the mail. The first nursing schools for women open. 1875 Mary Baker Eddy founds the Church of Christ, Scientist, and publishes the first edition of Science and Health. The Page Act severely limits immigration of Chinese women under the presumption that most Chinese female immigrants are prostitutes. 1879 Mary Baker Eddy formally charters the Church of Christ, Scientist. 1880 Louis Pasteur demonstrates that puerperal fever is caused by bacterial infection. 1881 The Knights of Labor opens its membership to women. The Association of Collegiate Alumnae is founded. 1882 Procedures for a Caesarean section with a good chance of saving the mother’s life are developed in Germany by Max Sänger. By the mid-1890s, the method reaches Boston. TIMELINE OF EVENTS
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