Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-28
TEN GENTLE SYMPHONIES.
Fair Hands and Faces at a Col lege Dissecting Table.
Scenes and Incidents in Medical School for Women-Like the Boys, the Girls Have Their Fun-The Professor
 Ouizzing Her Class.

A half-score of blooming young lady students, with Mother Hubbard aprons stretching from their necks to their dainty feet and large silk handkerchiefs tied about their heads like turbans, stood last night around large marble-top table in one of the third-story front rooms of the Women's Medical College on North College avenue, says the Phila- 1elphia Record. On the operating table, for such it was, lay the corpse of woman with her glass-like eyes wide open and her face csntorted in an expression of despair.
 The ten gentle ''sawbones" who encir- cled the table ranged in years from eighteen to thirty, and a death-like si- lence pervaded the room. Bending we'll over the table and so close together that their turbaned heads touched, they were eagerly working over the lifeless body, their nimble fingers moving back and | forth as if they were picking out mug gets of gold.
 At the head of the corpse chubby checked maiden, plump and short, with her hair done up pompadour style, and a beautiful opal ring on her left third finger, gazed long and hard at the ghastly features, trying to locate the various muscles about the face and head. There was not sign of emotion or fear on the faces of the ten fair young disciples of Esculapius. An intense earnestpess and curiosity possessed all of the budding physicians, and they | went at their work with such expe- dition as to prove that they were in for business. In their left hands the girls all had pincers or forceps, and with a scalpel in the right hand they cut | boldly into the skin of the corpse. Muscles were grasped by the forceps and held high in the air. All the material surrounding them was then removed, until the muscles resembled string of sausage.
 1 When this was done the lady demon strator, Dr. Elizabeth R. Bunting, who had been silently and critically inspect | ing the work of the dissection, ap- preached the head of the corpse, and, rapping on the marble top of the table with pair of pincers, exclaimed:
 "Class will please come to order!'
 The lady demonstrator then ques- toned each of the students about the work. As she seized each of the muscles, sinews, arteries and nerves pr. Bunting asked: ''What is this? What is it's function?'
 The glib tongues of the young ladies told the Latin names of the different parts and defined their functions with out hesitation. Finally, when the lady demonstrator approached one of the stu dents, a bright-eyed young miss, there was litter all around the room. Of the ten students this young lady had been the only ono to betray the slight est emotion during the dissection. She had gone about her work tremulously and frequently big lump rose in her throat.
 Miss L." said tho demonstrator, seizing hold of the pectoralis major, ''please tell me what muscle this is and what are it's functions?''
 As the bright-eyed miss looked at the muscle she grew pale, shuddered, and putting a handkerchief to her pretty lips, she looked imploringly at the lady professor.
 ''Do you feel sick?" anxiously inquired the demonstrator, while the whole class filtered
 The young lady oearfully nodded her head and was given permission to leave the room.
 ''Shell brace upby and by," remarked pretty dimple-cheek student to com paniOn.
 Dr. Bunting then took her position al the head of the corpse and said: ''The class will please pay attention to what will be done now"
 Dr. Bunting proceeded to make 8 couple of incisions in the throat, and pointed out the difference between laryngotomy and tracheotomy, as the demonstrator picked out each of the muscles and explained them in many jointed Latin terms which the young ladies had to take in sections,
 At the close of the lecture Dr. Blunt ing, with broad smile on his face, an nounced: "Girls, we have at present twenty corpses on hand. This will en able us to do considerable dissecting."
 The news was hailed with clapping O. hands and strange expressions of satis faction. With beaming faces the girl. made straight for the body which they had been dissecting. Each one go some of the bones, and wrapping then in pieces of cloth hastened to theil rooms.
 When the lady demonstrator wa: | tion of the bones by the girls, she said
 70, that's what the stud dents alway. do after they have dissected body They take the bones, dry them ant keep them as mementos of the old day in college. It is a good scheme, ane the girls are proud of the old bones Girls, after they get little experience do not mind handling dead bodies. I is a mawkish sentiment that ladies Cal not be good surgeons and physicians.
 am confident that the time is fast ap preaching when to ladies will be dele gated certain delicate surgical opera tions which they only are fitted to dex terously perform"
 Postal Wagons in Berlin.
 Berlin now has a system of large post al wagons-with sorting tables, stamp ing arrangements, and every thing else used in preparing mail for transporta tion-which operate on all the city mai routes. About two hours is thus saved in preparing the city mails for th' ! teams, as the clerks do all the sorting rta ap,,,nU and hun11inr whi1a tho wau