The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-29
RICHM OHD, VA,
TUESDAY MORNING, ....mAY 20. 1875
FEMALE PHYSICIANS

FEMALE PHYSICIANS.
We are not prepared to assert that women
should be excluded from the practice of me-
d'cine among their own sex, and among chill
oren. But it does seem to US that the
manner IN which many of them obtain med
zeal education at the North, involves great
lndelicacy and improperly on the part of
those who affect to be so squeamish over the
present system. Take, as an example, the
Female Medical School of Boston, or the
New England Female Medical College, as it
IS now called, history of which we find in
the n. Y. Tribune. Male professors have
been employed to teach the female pupils;
and the course of lectures had been princi-
pally upon midwifery and female diseases.
Al other institutions, female students attend
in company. with male.students, and even the
Medical Faculty of Harvard decided to ad-
nit lady pupil 4to, the term, Of 185O-'5l,
but her application was withdrawn, owing to
| the students opinion Of its impropriety, al
though they conceded that women should
| have special schools. Things have come to
| pretty pass, in Massachusetts when even
the wild youths at college are obliged to give
aspiring women a rebuke for their indeica-
cy and improprety!
From the TribUne's article, we learn that
| during the last six years, female medical ed
ucation has made considerable progress in
| the North. The Female College in Boston
was commenced in l848, and since its com
| mencement, has been attended by over
| hundred young women, who have come from
| New England and several other'Stat The
last class numbered twenty eight. Most have
| confined their studies to those departments
| specially relatingto their own sex and to
| children. Provision has been made for forty
| State pupils.
The Female Medical College of Pennsyl-
vania was established in 1849 The Legis-
lature of that State granted it a charter with
all the privileges and powers possessed by
any of the Medical Institutions in Pennsyl-
vania. The success of this institution is said
to have far exceeded the most sanguine an
ticipations of its friends M ore than hun
| dred and thirty women have attended this
| Institution, fifty flour of whom have gradua
| ted. Most of the graduates, it is said, have
| been very successful in obtaining practice
and are making money. The receipts Of Sc
veral for their first years practice have been
over $1,000. The classes, it appears, have
usually comprised both single and married
ladies, and some widows. The alumn@ of
these Colleges are. said to bein great demand
in different parts of the Union.
At the Eclectic Medical Institute of Gin
| cinnati, eighteen ladies attended Medical
| Lectures last winter, four of whom have Just
! graduated. A new medical institution was
| organized last winter in Bloomington, Hi
nois, by one Doctor Freese and his associ-
ates, who intend to admit young women as
well as gentlemen students A lady phygi-
clan graduated at Geneva Medical College,
! n. Y, in 1847-'8 She was the first in the
| United States to take the regular degree of
Doctor. Another lady received her educa-
ton at the Cleveland Medical College, Ohio
in 1852, and it has now lady among its stu
| dents, who was also educated in medicine in
Austria 1t will thus be seen that Female
| Physicians are increasing, and that in some
| departments of practice, their male compel
! itOrS may hereafter expect squally times