Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-04-14
WOMEN PHYSICIANS.
They Are by No Means u New Element
Of Professional Liic.



FEMININE DOCTORS VINO ACHIEVE
PAME ny mEprcGL i,S0wLrDGE
AND SURGICAL SKILL.
"You are aware, my dear SIR" says
Clifford, In Hawthornc's House OF the
Seven Cables shat all human pro.
grcs- n Ia u circle, or. to use more
accurate aud beautiful figure, IN the
ascending spiral curve. While we
fancy ourselves going straight forward
and attaining ut avery step AN cntlrlly
now petition Of afihitr, We 10 actually
return 10 something long ago tried and
ubandops,i, but which we now Mud
etheronfikrd. refined and perfected 10
IT, Ideal. The psst IN hut co,rsc ana
sensual prophecy Of tho present and tho
futurr.v
II Il hardly necessary 10 say that we
ilud ovemplincttion Of th.sa striklng
worls On almo.t ovcry page Of the
WORLDS history. The dizzy flight Of
time, bearing Us ever onward, we can
scarce tell WHITTIER, does not, as we are
apt - Imagine, carry IA quite away
from every memory Of the past.
Again aud again We are fore 4 back
upon the experiences Of our fathers,
Ri,sin aud again we hud ourselves tax.
Ing up their traditions; again and again
som. sudden swirl OF circumstances
sweep US around 10 an nnciont land
mark which ns we hal supposed had
long been lcft bchind. The more we
study the course u human develop.
mcnt the more We learn 10 realize the
truth " the wis. mnn'. saying that
"thCfc Is no now thing under the SUM"
paraphflsui hy tho modern French.
man In the characteristic aphorisni
that "lhrrc N nothing new but that
which has been forgotten"
We are led Into observations Of this
kind when, with the modern move
mont for the free admission OF women
into the medical profession gaining
ever Increasing favor we turn back and
read what the ANIMALS OF our rnuo have
10 tell u, NJ the women physicians Of
by-gone days. The lady doctor, ~ far
from being, ~ many Imagine, a
unique product or our ruvoluiioniting
age, IL a figure which has boon SUM.
ciently familiar during many opochs OF
the worlds history.
NEUROLOGICAL ISFERENcrs.
The mythology Of ancient Greece, 40
far ~ IL throws any light Mt all upon
the matter, seems 10 Imply that mcdi.
elmo was occasionally practiccd by
women IN the very earliest days. SPEC
cial powers ~ healing were assigned
10 Juno and Ocyrae, the daughter ~
the centaur ChelrJn; aud M-dca aud
Circe were said 10 posses. u knowledge
Of medicinal herbs. We are generally
,..,l.c,,.J m. ,,,,,,.i ,,ai,ia, - ,t,,,,a.
an earth. and h 4. ,h.,,for., n,nbai1,
,bat he trnnn,aI i,',n'," M V ,,,,'
tion,,i had tnei, co,ni,,sns,, In III.
r,.sr,c, amon,, IN, nnri.I n,uai,,s -
I'M, tIm,'
p,.. -. .,-,,
nus WYNN We cne, ,ne historic pcH'
~ We nnu 'n,. io' iung uine women,
nohS wy" saNer We's speeln,ally
plhlnl'eu w .no ia"n ~ N.hehr from
s,,uuylng mvlie,ne. Wy "nu when
u'ls Itoniui.,on wa h.hiiy abolished
sa nih'.t OF uispuf, ,h9ugh pretty
a.o,y - VII III vunn . WIN tne
i.'..t, wnon' i" uue, MouIu seem 70
~. -. lcss n yo"hs woman OF tne
WY, hgnvulce 1y name, was while
WI" youns se'zcu WIN an uneohtroii'
nuie ueste .oI hno"ieuse, nnu, " us.
su,ns ".,s,n ~ "sl. hl.ite, iounu
, ',,' 70 n..on' m, tns ies,ut.s OF phy'
quently, still retaining he. Disguise,
s',e uen Wiz ne,.n 70 = pnyncinfs
~, , WV" III, s.. .,. ,oa W. ', success
N ny v'e' .ovso,s y. u"e v''y ps-
~, ~. snu WV tnoir
,a,,on n '',s' .,pu'
un ~ uipnB w riulcuIous
,,,H n', e,sonn cnMao'cr'
' N.~ o'i ,na suo n a,,n ~ eohso'
H.. .., III, nSno ~ ~ ian " ne'uiul, "a
,'',i,c ~ s,.o ~ ~ ."0' ,fa, w. ,hano
rras ~, an,,.. n,,, 80, ,,ia, ,pyn ns sno
H.. ~ ~. ~, .,rya ri ~, i','ns,ng
,,r ~ .,,d , " .u. iIou, we
p,,.'S ,'i ~ muu" uou1.,s nave
nni m, wiy.. ~ tbs issJ,na ni, naa
noa s ,"v ,n mi, ~ ns clhhehs
tanning not only her acauittai. mi ala,
the Instant alteration OF M, obnox I'M.
law, Unfortunairly, Il has 10 h, mi.
mitted that, charming as the story ia
II rests-ala-, like most of the very
charming stories In historyi - una1
very Insecure Foundations: and h.
main value here Is 10 shows. tr,,c ar
false. Il certainly do..-thal wom.n
physlcIans were not unknown nmnng
theanclcnt Greeks,
ROMAN RESTRICTION.
In Rome. too. Their. w.r, laws which
aimed at closing the profrssion IN
women. but they wer. moi ai,y.ys
.,..,I..I,, .,,.,,,....,si A., ,l,.i. -"