 While in Philadelphia, Bagley met James Durno (1795–1871), a native of Aberdeen, Scotland; they married on November 13, 1850.In 1851, Sarah and James Durno moved to Albany, New York and began their practice as homeopathic physicians.At that time, homeopathic health care was a new field of medicine, which used herbs and medicines rather than the traditional procedures performed by doctors at the time – bleeding patients, or “purging” the body through vomiting.