Foreign Language Press Service

Polish Woman Becomes Doctor

Dziennik Chicagoski, Feb. 19, 1897

Mrs. Anna L. L. Krygier, nee Lipnowska, who was born in Poland, and who recently married the well-known Leopold Krygier, has just received a diploma in medicine and surgery from Geneva University. A license to practice in the state of Illinois was issued to her today from Springfield.

Dr. Krygier was first assistant at the city clinic in Geneva. She also spent three years as an interne in the famed Maternity Hospital in that city. She specializes in Obstetrics, and children's and women's diseases.

She has opened an office at 172 Throop Street, between Harrison and Congress Streets. Patients will be received from 10 to 12 A.M. and from 5 to 6 P.M. Consultations will be free of charge to the poor.

Letters of congratulations and good wishes were received by her from persons abroad as well as from persons in this country. May she succeed in this profession.

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