 Despite her somewhat dire financial situation she decided to go to Vienna together with fellow Zurich medical graduate Marie Bokowa for a few months, where among others she met Auguste Forel and C. E. Hoestermann.The four of them called themselves the "Wiener Quartett" (Vienna quartet) and planned on meeting again in July 1875 in Zurich.After her clinical studies in Vienna and Paris, she returned to the United States.