Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-08-09

GA young woman, English by birth, but for
many years a resident of Cincinnati, and who had
engaged in the study of medicine at institutions in
the east, from which she graduated with honor to her.
self, recently went to Paris for the purpose of per-
fecting herself in the schools of that city. The Paris
correspondent of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce,
thus notices her advent at that city.
The medical community of Paris has been set a
talking, by the arrival in this city of the celebrated
| American doctor, Miss Blackwell. The lady has
quite bewildered the learned faculty, by her diploma,
all in due form. authorizing her to dose and bleed
and amputate with the best of them. Some of them
are certain that Miss Blackwell is a Socialist of the
most furious class, and that her undertaking Is the
entering wedge to a systematic attack on society by
the fair sex. Others who have seen her, say that
there is nothing very alarming in her manner, that,
on the contrary, she appears modest and unassuming,
and talks reasonably on other subjects. The ladies
attack her in their turn. One OF them said to me,
the other day, ''Oh, il is too horrid I'm sure / never
could touch her hand! Only to think that those long
fingers of hers had been cutting up ~people!" have
seen the doctor in question, and must say, in fairness
that her appearance is quite prepossessing. She is
young. and rather good looking; her manner indicates
great energy of character; and she seems TO have en-
tered on her singular career from motives of duty,
and encouraged by respectable ladies at Cincinnati.
After about ten days hesitation on the part of the d.
icCtots VI Wc IlOcpltdi vi AldtCiuityB ~ u -
received the permission to enter that institution as
a pupil.
We think the writer must have prepared this state
ment for the ''home market especially for certainly
the Parisians could have been only surprised that an
English or American woman would thus seek aca-
demic honors. The admission of female students to
medical schools is certainly nothing new in their his
tory, and we have no doubt the delay mentioned was
| onlv occas;onod co that pronor combination of fba
applicant might be instituted. Every well read
medical man knows that the justly celebrated Madame
Boivin, M. D., and Madame Lachapelle, M. D., su-
perrin ended in the Hospital of Maternity about twen-
ty thousand obstetric cases each lectured and wrote
elaborate works on all the departments of practice per-
tanning to their own sex; to which volumes our ublest
physicians go for instruction, as well they may.
Our attentive readers are already aware that efforts
are making to provide a school in Boston for the edu-
cation Of females for appropriate professional duties,
particularly the department of Midwifery. Some
thing has been accomplished. The American Medi-
cal Education Society for promoting this object, num-
bers five hundred members. among whom are repre-
s~entatives of all the professions, and of all sections
of the great public, including forty clergymen of the
different denominations. The President of the Socie-
ty, E. C. Rolfe. M. D., has instructed twenty intelli-
gent females. and they are getting into a successful
practice, Every man of d%elicacy will be gratifed a,
the complete success of such a school.
FIRE.-Another destructive fire among the steam
boats occurred at St. Louis on the 30th ut. Five
steamers and their cargoes, were destroyed; and a
row between the fremen and the Irish closed the
scene- The loss is heavy.
1t is asserted for a fact, that recently n wing con-
graduated Gen. Taylor that he had made so many
removals Of democrats, and that Taylor replied that
he was mistaken, as there had been perry few made,
and those for 'intemperancer :" The General further
remarked that il was astonishing what a vast amount
of u States land was being sold. "Why, sir, said he,
81 am obliged to sign land patents every hour in the
day. as Mr.. Warren can tell you. for he usually brings
them to me for my signaiure.' He COMMUNICATION
by the way, sir, Mr.. Warren is n very hard working
man. He is not obliged to make out land patents and
bring them to me for signature. but he says he has
plenty Of time! ~
II takes Fitz Warren to gull the old man. He
walks into the mansion very gracefully, with n lot ct
commissions in his hand, and remarks: ''General, |
am sorry to trouble you. but here are a few more land