Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-28 00:00:00

From the Aeto York Tribune.

Miss Jessie M. White, an rnglieovvemen, who had a lame
little brother who had repeatedly broken his I.g—once
whin his doc'or was out of town, and when he could not
he induces to submit Co a painful operation by a stranger
—was compelled to set it herself, and succeeded so as to
win a compliment from the surgem who attended next day.
Ile sportingly offered her a surgeon's cert'ficete ; she asked
him instead to assist her in gaining a studen.'s admission to
one of the hospitals, which he declined, although she had
not only ter unfortunate brother but another lame boy
under her dei'y charge. An tier doctor, being appealed
, to, warmly espoused Miss White's cause, and gave her
letters and introductions to leading medical friends ; but
her applications to all the hospitals of London—fourteen
in number—were successively rej cted. She also applied
for tickets to attend a three years' course of medical and
surgical lectures, but was peremptorily refused. It is fixed
that a woman must not he allowed to acquire a regu'ar
medical education in England.
A year or so ago, three young women, frona exemplary
New England families, applied for the privilege of at end-
the clinical lectures at the Philadelshla Hospital. They
were admitted on the same terms with other students—in
fact, we believe tl ere was no legal right to exelade them
—on payment of the regular charge. They soon dis-
covered, however, that they were to ba drives out, if
possible, by systematic indecency on the part of those with
whom they were compelled to asscciate, including corn.
whom they had paid as instructors. What sort of morals
are prevalent among too many of the young men who con-
gregate to li ten *o medical lectur s is pretty generally
known, and Philadelphi I had asep.ired a " bad eminence"
in the matter of dissipated medical students. The young
women, however, being most acxious to acquire a
knowledge of the healing art, cortinuel to attend the
lecture!, in spite of repeated declarations that they should
be dtiven away. Indecent rerearl s, wantonly made in the
c-u Se of the lecturee, did not sect mplish their evident
purpose. At length, on entering the lecture-room at the
time appointed for a lecture, tha young women perceived,
from the winks and ch•lckles exchanged among their
gentlemanly associates, that some special annoyance was
prepared for them, and its charact'r was soon revealed by
the introduction of an insane man in a state of entire nudity
to form the sul-j-ct of the current lecture I The pretext
for this introductisn was a desire to elucidate a certain
disease of the skin. The necessity for the indecent ex-
posure may be judged from the fact that all the appearance
of eirease on this unfortunate stbject was confined t) the
scalp and the hick of the bead ; but no matter, the fsmala
students were driven awry, and their money, paid for
acmission ♦irtually, taken without consideration We -
believe that. is " putting as fine a point on it" as facts will
warrant and the law requires. .
The Woman's Advocate (Philadashie), from which we
have c Ai lens.et the above statement, adds :
" But there was still an set of persecutors connected
with the matter. The B and of Guardians, the very men
who had voted' to admit young ladies and to take their
money, being instiga ed by the d tetors, and listening to
their falsehood ar;d slander wi hut in vestigation or inuiry,
passed a resolution to the purport that certain disreputab's
females were attending the lac'ures for improper purposes,
and should be excluded. This vile slander was published
in the proceedings. Nob() 'y acqeinted with that board
would be affected by it, for the cloa-acter of the body was
far below suspicion. It was established as bad. That
they should rob three young women was not surprising
when the propensity for rubbing the alms-house War, so w.ll
known. Who were the persons thus slande.ei ? 'l hey
were from the best families of New England and of this
State, And as far above the average standing of the
majority of the Board of- Guardians, ,as the latter are
blow that of ordinary men.
" Such are some of the d:fficulties of obtaining a
medical education in the United States; or rather, they
are difficulies in the way of hospital practice after an
education is obtained. It will not be of lung duration.
Such professional mer, will be superseded by more
moral ; and more liberal minds will have charge of public
him! itals."

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