On this page
-
Text (1)
-
10 FEMALE PHYSICIANS.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
* Sympa Women Thy Always With Suffering ...
fulness literary these and medical female education schools and ! seminaries open ' ' ¦ for ' . >' women _- of
For the purpose of promoting their success in the profession , the graduates of this College four years ago formed an association
called the New England Female Medical Society , now numbering , twenty-five members , graduates from this and other colleges .
Communications , verbal and written , are made at their meetings , and as their experience and observation extend they will be able to
contribute more and more to the common stock for mutual improvement .
There are some persons who think there should be no separate medical schools for females , but that the sexes should be educated
together . If the argument of propriety , urged in favor of female physicians for their own sexhas any forceit holds good in favor
of separate schools for their , education . That , the experiment of admitting female students to male medical colleges has proved
unsatisfactory may be inferred from the circumstance that in most or all of the instances of the kind the practice has been discontinued ,
and applications from ladies are rejected on the very reasonable ground , that there are now medical colleges expressly for females
which it is more proper that they should attend . For a time it was of course necessary to employ male professors onlythere being no
others ; but of the six instructors in the college in , Boston , three are now ladies ; there are now also three in the Female College in
Philadelphia . _* In regard to hospital practice , there seems to be no good reason
why female students should not obtain it in existing hospitals . In lying-in hospitals female physicians are certainly the proper
attendants ; and female students are the proper persons to assist and receive from them clinical instruction in the obstetric art . Madame
Boivin and Madame Lachapelle , learned and skilful , physicians , superintended above twenty thousand births each in the Hospital of
Maternity in Paris , and with unequalled success . The women and children ' s wards in general hospitals , if not at present under the
exclusive management of women physicians , could at specified times be attended by female studentsby themselveswith lady professors
to give the clinical instruction . , , The important movement now in progress for educating nurses
would be greatly facilitated and advanced by the co-operation of female physicians , who could more appropriately and more
conveniently , and therefore more successfully , than male physicians , instruct and train nurses in the care of ling-in and other female
y patients . That this is an enterprise of great magnitude , requiring labor
exist * It the is , however eriment , obvious cannot that be in made a country unless where the no firs female t students medical be allowed schools exp
Miss entrance Blackwell to a mal , and e m with edical no c undesirable ollege or ho result spital . , as was done in the case of
10 Female Physicians.
10 FEMALE _PHYSICIANS .
-
-
Citation
-
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/10/
-