Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-14
Women in Medicine,
[From the Baltimore Sun. Nov. Sd

From the Baltimore Sun, Nov. 3d.
The action of the board of trustees of the
Johns Hopkins University last week in ac-
cepting the handsome contribution OF the
WOman's Medical Fund Association to pro-
mote the higher medical education OF women
in the school OF this Intuition, is a very graf
flying event in many ways. Originating with
the women of Baltimore, who have been al
ways noted for their encouragement of liberal
education and enlarging the business and pro-
fessIonal sphere Of their sex, the women of the
country have handsomely seconded the move
ment, and it is in fair way now OF winning
all the success desired for it by its fair pro-
moters. Not only this, but the promise is
good for the proper endowment and secure es-
Enlistment OF a medical school on the foun-
dation OF the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hav-
ing raised 100000 with the view to the higher
medical education of women, the ladies are
going on with the work to aid all they can the
establishment OF Hopkins School Of Medicine
only thing needed by the ladies was the hear
ty cooperation of the University trustees,
which they have now received, and it has en-
couraged them to 20 on with their noble work.
In raising the minimum sum OF 100000 the
Baltimore society has been largely helped by
influential ladies OF other cities where auxilf-
AIRY societies have been formed. The admiS-
sion OF women to the medical school of the
University wheneverit shall open, On the same
terms as men, is an assured thing and a very
endowment to make the school secure for all
time is part of the work in which the wO-
mans association is now enlisted, and they
have to this end invoked the aid of influential
people, women and men, in all parts OF the
country. A local committee has been started
in Washington to solicit funds, with Mrs.
Harrison, the wife of the President, at its
head. and similar committees have been enlis-
ted in the cause in various other important
centres of the country, so that the prospect is
cheering all along the line. OF the ladies
who have taken up this matter too much can
not be said in praise of their public spirit, for
they have not only won good point for their
sex, but are doing noble service in the ad-
vancement of scientific progress and in bene-
fitting mankind. 1t is one OF the distinguish
ing characteristics of this age that women
have come to share with men so many OF the
occupations of life and to fill creditably posi-
lions which were hitherto nlpnopOlized by the
sterner sex. We see this in almost every pur-
suit, and it is but in keeping with the demands
of advancing civilization, which enlarges the
sphere of employment and opens doors for
competition which had been before closed.
But very short while ago it was in excep-
tional cases only that women went outside Of
the domestic sphere to find remunerative and
congenial occupation. Now 1t is quite differ
ent when scientific progress and development
in all Industrial lines, as we'll AS our imprOv-
ed business methods, invite and make room
! for women without injurionsly affecting the
employment of men.