Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-26
HOW THE DOCTORS TREAT WOMEN.

Miss Jesse M. White, an!Englsh woman, who
had Il lame little brother who had repeatedly brok-
his leg-once when his doctor was out of town
ard when he could not be induced to submit to a
painful operation by a stranger-was compelled to
set it herself, an | succeeded SO to win com
pliment from the surgeon who attended next day.
He sportively offered her surgeons certificate ;
she asked him instead to assist her in gaining
students admission to one Of the hospitals which
he declined, although she had not only her unfor
tunate brother but another lame boy under her da
y charge. Another doctor, being appealed to-
warmly espoused Miss Whites cause and gave her
letters and ntr0ducions to leading medical friends;
but her applications to all the hospitals of London
fourteen in number--were successfully rejected.
She also applied for tickets to attend three years
course ofmedcal and surgical lectures, but was
peremtorily refused 1t is fixed that woman
must not be allowed to acquire regular medical
education in England
"A year or so ago, three young women from ex-
emplary New England families applied for the
privilege Of attending the clinical lectures at the
Philadelphia Hospital. They were admitted on
the same terms with other students-in fact we be-
eve there no legal right to exclude them-on
payment of the regular charge They soon discov-
cred however, that they to be driven out if pos
sible by systematic indecency the part of those
with whom they were compelled to associate, in
Guiding some whom they had paid instructors.
What sort of morals are prevalent amorg too many
OF the young men who c0ngregate to listen to Med
ical Lectures, is pretty generally known and Phil
adclphia has acquired "bad eminence" in the
matter of discipated medical students. The young
women, however, being most anxious to acquire
knowledge of the healing art continued to attend
the lectures, in spite Of the repeated declarations
that they should be driven away. Indecent re-
marks. wantonly made in the course Of she lectures
did not accomplish their evident purpose. At
length, entering the ecture.room at the time ap-
pointed for lecture, the young women perceived
from the winks and chuckes exchanged among
their gentlemdaly associates, that some special
noyance was prepared for them and its character
was soon revealed by the Introduction of an Insane
man in state of ertire nudity to form the subject
of the current lecture The pretext for this intro
duction was desire to elucdate certain disease
of the skin;the necessity for the indecent exposure
may be judged of from the fact that all the appear
ance Of the disease in this unfortunate subject raS
confined 10 the scalp and back Of the head But no
matter-the female students were driven away,
and the money paid for their admission virtually
taken without consideration. We believe that is
quitting fine point on it" as facts will warrant
and the law requires.
The woman's Advocate (Phiadelphia), from
which we have condensed the above statement,
adds;
"But, there was still another set of prosecutors
connected with this matter. The Board of Guard
ians, the very men who had voted to admit the
young ladies and to take their money being insti-
gated by the doctors, and listening to their false
hood and slander, without investigation even
inquiry passed resolution to the purport that
certain disrepufable females were attending the
lectures for improper purposes, and should be ex
cluded This vile slander was published in the
proceedings. Nobody acquainted with the Board
would he affected By it for the character Of the
body is far below suspicion. IL is established as
bad. That they should rob three young women
was not surprising, when the propensity for rob
bng the Aims House was so well known. who
were the persons thus slandered? They 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 below that of ordinary men.
Such are some of the difficulties of obtaining
medical education in the United States rather,
they are difficulties in the way Of hospital practice