The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-13
WOMEN As MEDICAL PRAOTI-
aa" TONERS.

In Zurich, Switzerland, there is one lady il
the practice of medicine, who says that shs
has been very successful, having had no lacl
of patients from the first opening Of her office
At the Zurich University there are fifteen fe
male medical students all getting along cred
itabiy. In the department of medicine and
surgery in the University Of st. Petersburg
there are two hundred and fifty female
students.
The General Medica! Council of London
has been consulted upon the propriety of ad-
hitting women into the medical profession.
This body consists of twenty-four doctors and
surgeons, the most distinguished in the me-
tropolis and kingdom. .v..5-.
Being called upon by the government for
an opinion, the discussion was long and ami
mated, ending in resolution instrncing
their presiding officer to reply that if the
government saw fit to admit women, to the
faculty, there would be no objection on the
part Of practitioners; but they took especial
care to add the proviso, "that the education
and examination of the female students at
medicine should be conducted entirely apart
from those of male students. 81 -
The public, including the profession, ap-
pear to be growing more liberal in this mat
ter; but, after all, the question of female doc
tors will not be settled by preliminary dis
cussion, but rather by the success of female
graduates in medicine and surgery. y
There will be some examples. of eminent
success, which will be noted, advertised and
praised; there will be large proportion of
utter failures about which only few per-
sonal friends and relatives will know any
thing AS in all professions and vocations,
this will be estimated by young ladies by the
year after year an increasing number of women
will enter medical colleges, graduate and seek
practice. 1t is only after an experiment on a
large, SCALE. prolonged through series of
years, that it can be determined by the gen.
eral public of enlightened countries whether
the practice Of medicine and surgery is
adapted to females or not. Of the capacity
Of some young women to undergo the proba-
tionery studies Of the profession there is left
no room to doubt. "a -o-i--
The possibility of womans obtaining and
successfully conducting a practice large
enough to employ all her time.and to afford a
good income, has been repeatedly demon
strated, but it is not yet proven that the pro-
fession is one which educated, healthy and
strong women may expect to practice as sue
,essfully as men. MIL f.#f
j, Separate universities will obviste the in
lelicacy Of the co-education of male and |
female medical students, and in time female |
doctors will become by learning and expert
,nce capable of instructing female students.
Ill these matters are in the end self-regula-
ing. The time was when women were
bought incapable of teaching but they have
n million Of instances taught successfully
q public schools.
The same may prove true with respect to
emale doctors-and it may not ALI definite,
etted wants Of society will at length work
ut their own supply. The public will have
T female doctors are in demand they will
ONE forward to fill the vacuum.
The prediction may be ventured without
ouch hazard that the healing art will for the
nost part remain under the hands of men
trong in their nature, steady in nerve, sound
d judgment, firm in will, and conscientious
. action.
In another column will be found list of all