Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
FROM WHOSE DAILY LIFE I FIRST LEARNED WHAT INCALCULABLE BLESSINGS MAY BE CONFERRED ON THE SICK AND SUFFERING OF HER OWN SEX BY A NOBLE AND PURE-MINDED WOMAN WHO IS ALSO A THOROUGHLY SCIENTIFIC PHYSICIAN.
FROM WHOSE DAILY LIFE I FIRST LEARNED WHAT INCALCULABLE BLESSINGS MAY BE CONFERRED ON THE SICK AND SUFFERING OF HER OWN SEX BY A NOBLE AND PURE-MINDED WOMAN WHO IS ALSO A THOROU...
9. Part 9[105] “It mattered nothing that firms had voted ever since the Infirmary was founded; that contributors qualified only as members of firms had, as has now been ascertained, sat...
6. Part 6(1.) That ladies be allowed to matriculate as medical students, and to pass the usual preliminary examination for registration; (2.) That ladies be allowed to attend medical cla...
4. Part 4Nor is the progress of liberality less marked on the other side of the Atlantic. It is well known that several of the smaller medical schools in the United States admitted women...
10. Part 10“Now at last the vexed question of mixed classes will be solved, and there can be no doubt in the minds of those who have ever been engaged in scientific study of the favourable...
8. Part 8On the other hand, we had no less authority than that of the Lord Advocate of Scotland for believing that we were absolutely entitled to what we had so humbly solicited, and tha...
7. Part 7About the same time a petition, signed by twenty-three male students,[94] was presented to the Infirmary managers, praying that the lady students should no longer be excluded, b...
5. Part 5“Nothing probably but the deadening force of habit, combined with the apparent necessity of the case, has induced us to endure that anomalous person against whose existence our...
3. Part 3So far from there being no demand for women as physicians, I believe that there is at this moment a large amount of work actually awaiting them; that a large amount of suffering...
2. Part 2In the seventeenth century, in England, one of the women most noted for medical skill was Lady Ann Halket,[28] born in 1622, daughter of the then provost of Eton College. “Next...
13. Part 13“The extraordinary history of the vicissitudes endured by the lady students seems at last to have reached its most extraordinary phase. It appears, as stated in our columns of y...
11. Part 11“A very odd and very gross injustice appears to have been attempted in the University of Edinburgh. In that University the lady medical students are taught in a separate class,-...
12. Part 12“The current report is, that these disgraceful outrages were originally and principally carried out by students of the College of Surgeons. This is contrary to fact. Certainly t...
14. Part 14“8. That we are informed on high authority that it is at present within the power of your honourable Court, in conjunction with the Senatus, to make the necessary arrangements w...