The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-02

diseases Of the throat, the eye and the ear.
several women have won respectful atten-
tlon as medical writer's, DR.. Grace Peckham
and DR.. Lucy n. Hall finding ready hear
ing. DR.. DeJerine Klumpke, who is an
American though married in France, has
written several standard works on nervous
pathology.
VI women who become doctors statistics
see n 10 show that about one in five will
marry. OF the number whose troth is not
pllghted TO their profession so siugly but
tnaU they put on the wedding ring, only 3
or per cent. retire from practice on mar
rage, and nearly so per cent. marry doc
tors whose active partners they become.
Brooklyn furnishes several examples of
married doctors whose home lives prove
That matrimony is not necessarily failure
when the wife, instead Of stitching her life
into embroidered doilies. practices medi-
cine. DR.. Mary Wattles Fauuce, for ex-
ample, who has 80 worthily Oiled the chair
OF anatomy at tbs Womens Medical Col
ege of the New York Infirmary, has three
or four chubby, rosy checked children riot
ing about the daintiest of homes.
Il leading woman physician in New
York who has been in practice for twenty
years. when questioned as tt the effect of
medical practice on the health of women.
said that as a rule improvement rather
than degeneracy followed. The rate of
mortality is low among women doctors and
not many have been compelled to retire
owing TO inability to stand the strain.
Where breakdown has resulted investiga-
ton would often find its cause in the over
conScientiousness of the doctor who to *
her patients ailments as much to heart as
If they had been members of her own
family, notably in the case of pretty little
blonde who when called to house Contain
ing three typhus fever cases constituted
herself nurse as well as doctor, insisted on
preparing the food and watching by tbs
bedsides, saved her patients but took the
fever herself, and was couple OF years in
reaching full health and strength again.
When the devotion to duty is not nervOusiy
morbid, the woman doctor submits to
beng routed out of bed at midnight in a
bowling March blizzard and to spending.
her days and nights in journeying from
slck-room to Sick-roOm with surprising
equanimity, growing rosy and pu M
under the discipline, and taking much JOY
in her sleek horse and colored coachman.
Many married women who have become
doctors have found their knowledge of in
calculable value IN the rearing Of thAr
children.
Among New York physicians, the statis-
tics of the lying in wards Of the New York
Infant Asylum under the charge of DR..
Kate Parker as resident physician made the
bsst record Drs. Sarah e. Post Annie 8.
Daniel and Gertrude B. Kelly are all of the
Alumne Association of the college Of the
New York Infrmary. DIR. Post is an in
ventor whose attachments to medical cleo
trical machines have been found of value in
theprofession DR.. Daniel has been the out
visitor of the inlirmary and during the
summer months, when the infant mortality
mounts up to half the death rate Of the city,
the dwellers i'll the tenement districts have
found her a stanch and intelligent friend,
and her acquaintance with their needs has
prompted the 8 ate Charities Association to
make frequent calls on her for advice and
Information. DR.. Kelly IL a clever young
doctor aud thinker on social topi s. DR..
Emily Blackwell is the dean Of the Woman's
Medical College and woman with wide
range of influence. Her house is the one
once made the salon Of New York 10y the
Cary sisters, Alice and Phoebe. Dr. Mary
T. Bissell is the sister of the president of
Vassar, and has done mu b for the cause Of
physical culture among women by her
gymnasium and by the able pen she Yields.
DR.. josephine Chevaher is an excellent
chemist, and Drs. Sarah and Julia Men att,
DR.. Eleanor Kilham, DR.. Josephine Walter,
Dr. Mary s. West, and scores mo g have
found that the world has room for them
and makes place cordially for their work.
The death of DR.. Clemence Lozier showed
how deep can be the void left by the loss of
a woman physician. In Brooklyn DIR.
Belle NJ. Rankine Dr. Baker, Drs Eliza
M. Mosher and Lucy NJ Hall, who work
together in partnership that only of late
would have BEEN counted possible to women
and who have been superintendents of the
Woman's Reformatory at Sherborne,
Mass, and later resident physicians OF Vas
sar college, with many others have done
hard working and brilliant service.
ELIZA PTrTNAM HEATOy