Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-05-23


through the newspapers has been pretty generally
informed that this lady was a regular student of &c
neVa Medical College, and received the diploma oil
That institution at its last Commencement AS she
Is the first medical doctor other sex in the u States
The case Is naturally enough, one of those ques,iona
Die matters upon which there must lie great vari-
ETY. OF opinions, and the public sentiment is besides
influenced by the partial and inaccurate statements
OF facts and conjec,ures which usually supply the
place Of correct information.
MISS Is. Is 70 years Of age. She was horn in the
cry OF Bristol. England. Her father settled with
his family In New York when she was about | |
years oiu. AFTER residence there of five or six
years, ne tailed In business, and moved to Circin-
NATL "A few weeks after his arrival there he died
leaving his widow and nine children in very embar
raised circumstances. Elizabeth, the third daugf-
Ter, was then IA years. and assisted two of her sis
'eIs In teaching yOurg lady's seminary. BY the
Joint efforts of the elder children the Younger mem
oers OF the family were supported and educated and
comfortable homestead On Walnut Hill was Sc
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purchase, has already quadrupled The price which
IL cost them give this fact for the illustration of
character which ii affords.
HE enterprise of these young ladies is still Erth-
er Indicated by the next steps which they several
~ took Anna. the eldest, some years ago took up
her residence in the City of New York, where she
"Ho uhtii iatcIy Ut the tTaue OIL periodical
authorship, French translation, and composer of mu-
Sic She is now in England under an engagement
with publisher there to translate the whole of
fouTier's works. She was selected for this task for
her very high ability in French translation. and the
excellence OF her English slyle.-Anolher sister,
Emily, lsieachng boys school in Cincinnati, pre-
pairing them for college in the departments of Nlalh-
eIna'lcs and the classic languages. And Elizabeth
after two or three years hard labor and study in
North and South Carolina, and two years more, en-
ciuslvely devoted to the study of medicine in Phil
adelphia and Geneva, has her medical diploma in
her pocket.
About five years ago she first entertained the idea
OF devoiIng herself 10 the study of medicine. Hav-
ing taken the resolution, she went vigorously TO
work to effect 1t. She commenced the study of
Greek, and peIseyered until she could read it salts
iactorly, and revived her Latin by devoting three
or tour hours day to it, until she had both suifi-
GENTLY for all ordinary and professional purposes
French she had taught, and studied German to graf
lily her fondness for its modern literature The for
mer she speaks with fiuency and translates the lat
ter elegantly, and manage TO read Italian prose
pretty well
| early in the spring Of 1915, for the purpose OF
] making The most money in the shortest time she
set ont Tor North Carolina, and after some months
| teaching French and music, and reading medicine
with DIR. John Dickson at Ashville, she removed
| 10 Charleston. Here she taught music alone, and
i'"o direction OF Ir. SalnI
HI. Dickson, then a resident of Charleston, ana
now Professor OF Practice in the University of New
York.
! Two years ago she came to Philadeiphia, for tn,
! purpose OF pursuing the study. That Summer, DIR
j. NJ Allen, Professor Of Anatomy afforded her ex
ceiient opportunities Tor dissection, lin his private an
atomica rooms. The winter following She a,,en
ded her first full course of lectures ut Geneva Tn
next Summer she resided at the BlOckley Hospital
Philadelphia, where she had the kndest attentions
from DIR. Benedict, the principle physician, and tn,
very large range for observation which its great va
reiy and numbers Of cases afford. Last winter sh
attended her second course at Geneva, and gradua
ted regularly at the close of the session. Her the
SIS was upon ship fever, which she had ample op
portuni,les for observing at Buckley II was SO a
bly, written that the Faculty of Geneva determine,
TO give il publication
1t is in keeping with my idea of this story to ad
that the proceeds of her industry have been az,
equaie to the entire expense of her medical educa
iion-about eight hundred dollars
| In few weeks she will leave for Paris. with In
design of remaining there one or two wears. hopin
to obtain there still greater facilities for the far
ther study Of her profession than this country al
iortS; especially in the department of surgery
which she has had but little opportunity to see.
| She will return when this purpose il; accomplish
ed, to practice medicine in a II its branches and Wi
probably settle in the City Of New York Walton
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