The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-11
O1rY INTELLIGENCE.
FEMALE DOCTORS.
AnuuaI commencement Of the wOman's
Medical college.

the Woman's Medical College was held at noon
A. day IN Concert Hall. The audience was very
large and the proceedings full OF interest. An
excellent band OF music was In attendance.
Tne Introductory prayer was delivered by the
Rev Albert Barnes His Honor Judge Pierce
,hen made q very happy, pertinent, and inte-
reasing address. reviewing the past history OF
tha institution, and touching upon its future
prospects. He was frequently applauded.
Then came the cobferring OF the degrees, by
r., Morris Perot, Esq, President OF the College.
upon the following graduates
Iuiiann II Cox OHIO. Asthma.
EudoIphia l.. Concl1Iin, New York. The Cir
Gu lRtion 49,, ,r.,,,ood 1,,pastIon
H.C. l. Hopkins, New YORK, AlimsnCation,
w n w Marnourg, Pa y mtCiiuga tcemosa
EuLhanasia p. Mead, .)aliiornia. Avn; u;;,,,
EIIZa r. Peirie. New Yo. Il. ID. D.aoeles MeIntus
MaTv Pratt New Jersey. The structure and
fupctions Of the human skin. ,,-,
Ann u seymour, Canada East. Hygiene;
t1y, ,6ia Smith, Massachusetts. Mutnal in-
anence of mind and BODY; ,,,o,, e,
spisrs swain. New York Eddometritis.
H.Tap Taylor, New Jersey. Erystpeias.
Nj l. Towsley, New York. Tue human eye.
Eliza Townsend ohio' Natures curative
the yaledictory address was then delivered
nv DR. BENJAMIN B. Wilson, Professor of
Surgery The following is synopsis of the
address,
For more than one hundred years has the good
nitv OF PniladeIp Iphia sustained for herself Gue
DrUnd position OF the metropolis of medicine OF
Inc United Is ates. For more than one hundred
wears at eaen annual return of the early
HpIing time, she has been sending forth from
her halls Oi learning her doctors of medicine,
whom sne has ii ted and prepared for toe great
work Of doing battle agata asst disease and dealh.
And our sister cities around us have seen
that IL was well to follow In the footsteps of
those who a century ago created the first
medical college ON this side OF the Atlantic,
and 10 initiate an example SO frsught with
blessings 10 our race. Many medical schoo 8
f0un cd AM a9tADliAhai ha
classic mo ell OF our time hOnOred University;
and their graduates, king side oy side aud
shoulder 10 shoulder with our own. vie with
them Ia skill, in Industry. In energy and sue.
cess in the succor and relief of suffering hu-
For suffering, disease. and death are the ap-
pOinttd lnheritanceS OF the human race; our
lot is to be born 10 suffer and to die. From
every quarter there comes up to us the cry of
pain; on every hand we see the pale face and
wasted form. the nusned cheek ana glowing
eve OF fever. And no condition or circumstances
OF life can exempt us from this common SEN
tence pronounced upon all mankind. From
tue lowly COTTAGES OF the poor and ham pie, from
thIify, from the stately palaces Of tue
wealthy and afipen,' IN comes ,%n ina alike
s,Ssn, ns spPssi for soot6ug in the hour Of
mortal agony, OF SSVal ea;ia ,Top,as @ quo
vigorous men, delicate auI sMnHenIi u; aho t
even little children, all are the saom m tns ths
inexorabe decree which, given out a. 'ne n
gates of Paradise still sounds In our hearts -
II did TO the affighted Of our first parents:
- u We
painful ins piration OF our first drawn hrA4.h
and th- final an"nv ~ ~ .ae last expiring sign.
but SUBJ end the worldly suffering with which
the measure of our lives Is filled.
earthly existence, our thoughts turn at once 10
the Kindness, The benehcence, the goodness of
God in pioyiding remsdies ior our ,n pqyslcaa pyna
excellence whicn has permitted no pang 10
affiict our body without furnishing a medicine
with which to nssuage our anguish VINO mas
permit ted 10 disease to WORK destruction upon
our earthly frames Without an anttdote to stay
its destructive progress. Our God is loving
and plying God, and we nave but to turn to
the means which He has provided, to scar so
nature for her stores; and lind there balm for
every wound, a cure for every Ill.
The art of medicine has, therefore. always
been an important art, and throughout the MIS-
the general progress of ntelectusl improve
menL How is 1T possible to conceive more
amiable. more nobler character than faith
full. earnest, and conscientious practitioner OF
medicine? His mind is enlarged and expanied
by discipline and observation, by study aud AZ:
tainmeDts in science, and his heart melloWed
by the habitual exercise of kindness and Dene-
violence towards the afflicted objects of his care
Who, then. so important 10 a community as he
who protec 8, preserves, and restores the health
of the people, without which no blessing would
be enjoyable a. and d life % itself Of little WORTH
And now of late to our good people IL has
seemed well that, In this great work OF charity
mate and ally of the stronger and sterner se K
should be invited. instructed, ana colnmls
miasie % of I tSe nine,eentn @ Century as pienesr
were even in the middle of the eighth century
We do not wait TO inquire whss ocmeTs nsg asI, ss
II our aims are right and proper. are tney II
the interests OF humanity and progressSa ,us
In that spirit of restless acttvlty III Tue caus
Of progress, and the work OF doing good w9ic H,
led century ago to the establishment IN cnl
place OF the first medical school OF the country
we saw that the interests of the sick aud Q
society was to be benefited by the education q
women for the profession OF medicine; @ a and d.
WA h6 r6AOV to aCt: ana 30 at OnC0 Wa
inaugurated q movement, the slight initis
effect of which society has hardly yet began
feel SSt WHEN n ost HT pTeSuna Tefy inaasnoe upo
some OF the customs OF enlightened commun
ties throughout the civilized world And
seems. indeed. eminently proper that nere tn
idea should have Its birth and this movemeI
The name OF our city is identified with muc
that is renowned in the history OF America
medicine. Here Pnysick, the father OF Amer
can surgery; here Rush. the patriot, Statesman
author, and physician; here Devices. for man
wears the Authoritative writer in his depar
ment both In the Old World ana the New
lived, praclised, ana taught tnSir a proessiS ses
siOnal, and points to all that is high aud noo
~ Tha la question of the proprfe,y and the exp
dtspcy of educating women IN medicine la
during the period OF the existence OF our co
lege been freely debated DoIn IN ma spS a 0a' @ 0 u
IL the occasion, 10 enter upon the consideraIic
or what has been or might be said upon u
EitG strange Inconsistency, the opponents
the measure have, on the one nand, declart
that ihe profession OF meains eaims,,n wou,9 aS Il
oommupity by the admission OF woman WIN
Its eacrtd portals; and. on the olher hand. Tn
woman herself would be degraded py conta
Snch Arguments refute themselves II MED acc
cine 10 the noble pIoie esslon Wnlcn we uelis o
A. IA how can any one man or woman oe u
based by pursuing III Nor Wlll our onlVAiIo
respect for the iemsle cnsIao,eT perm p ~ as 9s