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FEMALE PHYSICIANS. 9
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* Sympa Women Thy Always With Suffering ...
that in other medical colleges in the country . The number of graduates The College to the has present been time sustained is thirt mainl y-four . hj donations and State
aidbut in 1858 Hon . John Wadeof Woburn y left a bequest of 20 000 dollars as a scholarship fund , , _" for the support , and medical
shi education , Fund of is worth now y available and moral for indi students gent females . He . " also The left Wade about Scholar 5000
-dollars p which is to accumulate to 10 , 000 dollars , and then be paid realized dollars over to has the for many college also been years to found left , thoug to a the h professorshi it college will be , but p largel . it A is y bequest increased not likel of y by to 7000 the be
accumulation of interest . In 1849 Miss Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from the medical to
receive and school hel in ped a medical Geneva to increase , degree New the York . interest This , being incident in the the first m attracted ovement lady in public alread the country y attention in
progress hia . with In 1850 a State the charter Female Medical and a full College organized was opened faculty in of Philadel instruc - - y
p tion . , In 1853 the Penn Medical , University was started in Philadelhiawith separate departments of instruction for males and for
females p , . The Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati , Ohio , has colleges graduated —the num regular erous ladies and ; the a few homoeopathic have taken —in degrees Cleveland at the Ohio two ,
, as and the perhaps writer from has ascertained other medical above colleges two in hundred the country graduated . There female are ,
, physicians As all of in these the United are comparativel States . y beginners , and and most it of usuall them
sive requires have practice been a but long , it from time cannot for one be any to expected young five years p that hysician in marvellous service to build , things up an should exten y - of them
tion receiving have are , however for yet been future a good , achieved making success remuneration themselves in their Some , while professional have very others become useful career are to public lay . the ing Many lecturers public the founda , and to
-. female audiencesand are thus disseminating valuable knowledge where it is most , neededA graduate of this college has given
. Normal lectures Schools on anatomy of Massachusetts , physiology , to and the health , ladies in the preparing four State to young
that be teachers of the , children thus aiding and them youth in of , preserving the public their schools own . Another health and of
at the South graduates Hadl is p in hysician this State in the where Mount there Holyoke are near Female three Seminary hundred ,
young medical women advice y to , and receiv treatment e the , benefit when of needed her . teachings Thus she , and comb of ines her
the office of physician with the more important one of for supervisor doctress of
health but one to that this a female doctor household would awkwardl , an admirable fill . position All such seminaries a , y field of
Dught to be thus supplied ' . And what an interesting use-
Female Physicians. 9
FEMALE PHYSICIANS . 9
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/9/
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