Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-21

years since women, even In the larger
Eastern cities, have had any respectable
place In the medical profession. This
was not so much the fault Of woman her
self as OF that creature Of chlvalry and
charity-man, M. ID. The latter adj
mitted that women knew enough to adj
minister Dovers powder at the time in
! dicated on the label, but beyond that he
thought her physically and mentally in
capable. The honor Of founding the first
medical college for women belongs to
| Philadelphia. II was In 1850. This
honor was not secured without strug-
gle. There was fight In the state legls-
/ lature and another In the city council.
And the brave women, having at length
converted maiorites OF these bodies to
their way Of thinking, found themselves
confronted by the Philadelphia med
ical society. Here the fight was again
renewed but the women finally triumphed.
II was long after the close of the war be-
fore even so strong an abolition city as
Philadelphia would permit a colored man
to ride In street car. Quaker City senti.
ment was quite as difficult to educate to
the new order Of woman things. The
first class of female students to be admit
ted to clinic was In the old Pennsyl-
vanla hospital during the war, Their ad-
mission brought on flrst-class row. The
male students began by hooting and scuf-
fling, and ended by using muscular force
in ejecting the women from the room.
This disgraceful scene occurred in this
city less than quarter Of century ago.
In twenty years there has been n great
change. To-day it Is easier for q woman
to obtain foothold in the medical pro-
tessiOn in this city than it is for man.
Twenty years ago even leading citizens
winked at the tearing down of
woman doctors signs Now some /
OF these same women are the |
trusted family physicians of the |
wealthiest families of Philadelphia. |
There are four women practitioners in I
this city who have an annual practice of /
above $4,000 year each. There are
fifteen whose professional income exceeds
$4,000 a year each. There are twenty
who collect $4,000 year each,. and the
city has many who earn from $500 TO
$4,000 year. The average practice of
the women physicians of this city is
about $4,000 a year, a sum larger by
about $1,000 than the average practice Of
the men M. DIS.
Now If there are families who value
the services OF these women high enough
to go on paying them on an average
$4,000 year 1t follows that these women
are good deal of success as physi-
clans and surgeons. If that isn't sound
business logic, what Is 1t? | know that
some Of the leading female practitioners
are called in TO some of the most impor-
liant OF medical cases, and are nearly as
often consulted as the men in the same
line OF practice.
In no other country on tine globe are
women admitted to medical colleges on
The same terms as men. Such thing as
women being given full membership in
medical society of high rank, as has lust
)een done In Philadelphia, would lead to
open revolt in England. In Germany it
would produce revolution. To the med.
cal colleges in this country come the
women OF the East, and they return to
heir own land and tell the wonderful
tory OF the opportunity for the higher
OF women here. Among the
from the woman's medical col
ege in this city this year are women
rom Arabia, Siam, China, Japan, Aus
rama Jerusalem, Italy, several of the
european countries and the Sandwich
tbs encouraging to note" said DR..
tachel l.. Bodley, dean of the Women's
olleae, who gave me the
facts the other day.
That women who have entered the
rotession are conspicuous examples of
II that every physician should aspire to
e. There cannot be too many such wo-
len in any occupation, or to many such
MUSICIANS IN any country" ADMIRAL. :.