[1] She attended Wesleyan Female College in Wilmington, Delaware, and after graduation in 1845, she joined the faculty for four years to teach physiology and literature as a professor.

During this time, she began studying medicine and informally apprenticed with Henry F. Askew, president of the American Medical Association.

[2] The apprenticeships Mary Dixon Jones obtained were the common first step for upcoming medical students, however, ones with prestigious associations with established practitioners were extremely difficult and uncommon for women to acquire.

In 1862, Mary Jones moved, without her family, to New York City to study medicine at the Hygeio-Therapeutic Medical College, a water-cure institution teaching a therapeutic system that used water in curative ways.

[5] After ten years, at the age of 44, Jones decided to obtain further training at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1872.

In 1873, she also studied with Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi in New York, learning about the clinical diagnosis and the latest scientific techniques in pathology.

In 1875, Dr. Dixon Jones graduated and specialized in female reproductive diseases and 1876, she started studying pathology with Dr. Charles Heitzman, a Hungarian-born immigrant, who was one of the founders of the American Dermatological Association.

Dawson was the founder of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Disease of Women and Children and had great knowledge on the emerging gynecological speciality.

[3] In 1862, she later attended New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College where her interest in obstetrics and gynecology had provided her with an initiative to further her studies in the field of medicine.

[3] Jones' experience with patients with medical related issues to gynecology had laid her foundation with her strong interest in her field of work that had led her to be one of the leading surgeons in treatment of the female reproductive system.

[5] During her time spent at her own practice, she encountered many different gynecologically related problems in women such as fibroid tumors and infected tubes and appendages, that pushed her to meet with Dr. Carl Heitzman to serve as a mentor as he was specialized in pathology.

[5] Jones had taken a gynecology course from Benjamin Franklin Dawson who was affiliated with the creation of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children to which she had also published her first work.

[3] Jones' skills in networking with male had allowed her to work beside of very well-known surgeons at the time such as W. Gill Wylie, C. C. Lee, Henry Clark Coe, Arthur M. Jacobus, and Robert Tuttle Morris.

[3] Jones had published this case report in hopes of getting her name known in the public by using Tait's name in the title as a tribute to her support for his work and that he was often associated with the field of gynecology.

[2] Jones success in performing a total hysterectomy had allowed her to gain recognition when presented at the New York Pathological Society.

[5] Jones along with the individuals whom she worked with were very much involved in the change of the way medicine was approached towards diagnoses following with surgical procedures in the clinical setting.

[5] Jones' overall medical experience over the 19th century had highlighted the new innovations such as increasing knowledge in medicine along with the inclusion of laboratory work to which she had taken advantage of in her specialization in obstetrics and gynecology.

The paper claimed that she was forcing women to undergo unnecessary procedures and used organs removed from their bodies to advance her reputation in diagnosis and pathology.

This gave rise to two manslaughter charges, and on May 31, 1889, a grand jury indicted her along with her son and surgical partner, Charles Dixon Jones.

[6] Almost three hundred witnesses testified, including leading physicians, craftsmen and seamstresses, immigrants, tradesman and their wives, and her former patients.

[2] After Jones lost the libel case, she was forced to close her medical practice, give up performing surgeries, and move back to New York.

At the age of 64, she decided to continue her work by researching the tissue pathology of diseases of the women's reproductive system and conducting other microscopical studies.

[2] Dr. Mary Dixon Jones died in 1908 at the age of 80 in New York City, leaving a lasting legacy in the world of medicine, and not just in her specific field of Obstetrics and Gynecology.