New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-11
FATAL RESULTS OF THE USE OF INTOXICATING
LIQUORS.
SHALL WONEN BE DOCTORSt

THE TRUE STORY OF HOW THE MEDICAL STU
DENTS HOOTED THE LADIES, FROM AN EYE
WITNESS.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9.-The lecturerOOm of
the old Pennsylvania Hospital the scene OF novel
exhibition on Saturday morning last. The managers
having opened the doors for the admission Of female
medical students 10 the clinical lectures delivered there
had the pleasure Of seeing, for the first time In the
history OF the institution about 80 students from the
women's Medical College seated in the little theaer
where the clinics" are held. Three four hundred
male students from the other Medical Colleges Of the
city likewise present. as IL was tho regular lecture
morning. From OF the upper benches observed that
the circular form Of the apartment and the rising tiers OF
seats placed the full view they sat IN body
Oh side Two three Of the managers,
members of the Society OF Friends, were
seated the little stage awaiting the entrance
Of the lecturer They weghty" Friends, q sort
Of moral Dorc columns, with solidy Of person, aud
mild massiyeness OF countenance which betokened that
they 10 be diverted from purpose by tr0es
They were dressed In black. and wore their broad
bdmmed hats, and IN the few impatient minutes before
the lecture attracted attention than the noyces
themselves. Presently the cry Of Hat hat" was
raised by few students and hundred voices took
up. They decidedly wished the elderly gentlemen TO
be but II known that Friends decline Ia
their hats In public assembly unless their comfort
demands It, This harmless custom, originating In an
sanction Of 200 years-at all events, Ia historical-and
might have been passed had these young been
better read or better bred Bat they kept up tho
cry while tocmnly and silently tho managers
sat not IN the least Disconnected by the olamor. Pres
entity Of them and about 20 pass through
door opening from the platform TO inner apartment.
The shouts renewed and rs though patience were
longer q virtue, the Manager turned and laced the
assembly There was nothing brow beating 10 nls
look, nothing cholerio IN MS ylsagr, nothing
nrry In his glance. IL was calm, reproylng eye
with which this disciple OF Penn regarded the students,
but Il not crowned with the success tha attended
his great e1empar Ihey would not smoke lne pipe .,
the lecturer this point diverted attention and Imposed
silence Daring ths rst hour medical cases were lee
sNrai 1tsstion 1ue suboriinate Malaria sunstroke,
aud drOpsy Illustrated by their victims, claimed the gen
in which no had TO do with the brain
Of murdered man. with skillful alacrity
blood and the lack OF disease that death had been BY
violence The lady students we're then edited by sight
OF the plnen gland the alleged Of the sOull The
mains OF the cerebral organ being dismissed the assist
ants brought forward man with broken thigh TINS
was "A particularly Interesting and melancholy case Tor
the fractured bone had refused 20 unite The poor fell
low placed Tecumbent on tue revolving couch ana
the young doctors proceeded 10 pull of his boots. AT
this quick low stamping Ike growl OF dissent, ran
round tue benches But oh, on, ye lendinss was the
rule and speedily the natural unsartoral man lay be-
fore the Doctor had, however. prepareda blanket
for the noncc with which the patient was draped. but
times the decorous conventions must shrlyel up
before the needs OF science and humanity. In tins
case white measuring the fractured HUB,
there WAS "a mOmentary exposure, which proved
the signal for explosion among the students-
mock applause clappng, stamping, aud shouts OF laugh
ter mingled with Kisses and jeors, III one wild uprOar.
The eyes half the audience the lady students,
who SAT calm and unrued under this brutal treatment
their the lecturer II utterly Oblyous
of aught else transprlug After this shameful
eyidce Of low breeding part of the students II
WAS surprising that when tho classes were dismissed
number of them ready to heap more indlgnltles
upon the ladies as they passed out 30, crowdng tho
footwaks they compelled them TO take the cartway rs
they crossed the hospital grounds and were unsparg III
their ieers and dcrsiye applause. Whether mixed
classes AZ clinical lectures desirable MAJ De qnth
toned they may be embarrassing 10 tho lecturer ana
inur hi, but this doubt IL no mitigation
of the dsgracefu aud uumany conduct OF tho male stu
dents which thoroughly deserves exposure.