Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-12-25
THE WEAKEST OF WEAKLINGS.

THE WEAKEST OF WEAKLINGS.
The argument Of the weaklings who op-
pose the Koiner bill for women physicians
in the female wards Of asylums-that such
physicians would have to be gotten from
the North. is the weakest and most inhu-
man of all that their moss-clogged brains
have yet invented. We have already pub
lished list OF women physicians from the
South, regularly graduated, which contains
names of enough Southern women to equip
every insane asylum in the South twice
over. Of these Southern women, the fol-
lowing are Virginians born and bred-Dr.
Rush ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, Dr. gOrie r.
Moon-Andrews, Dr.. Emily Surgison, DR..
Emma E. Ewing and Dr.. Mary Barton.
These, out of a list of twenty Southern
women graduates at only the two colleges
we have been able to get list from.
How many there are from other colleges
there is not one practicing in Virginia
never would be if the weaklings could have
their way. Ninety-eight per cent. of the
Southern women physicians that graduated
have had to seek practice in the Northern
cities OF in foreign lands. In the sixty
four years Virginia has had aSylums for
her insane, their doors have been barred
against women physicians and it is only in
the last two years that a woman has been
able to hold a position on the medical staff
in one of them. They close the door of adj
vancement to women physicians in Virgin
ia, and then complain that there are not
Virginia women physicians prepared and
ready to advance!
Reynard must be sore pressed indeed
when he attempts to run down such shall
low pettifogging hole as this.
Suppose this petty argument of locality
had been used against male physicians;
Virginia would never have opened an asy-
lum fOr her insane-would never have
opened school for her blind and deaf
mutes. The first physician Of the w. L.
Asylum at Staunton was DR.. VIM. Boys Of
Philadelphia, and the first instructors of
her deaf-mutes and her blind were from
New England. The broad-minded people
of Virginia have never shared the knitting
needle prejudices of these weaklings. Viz
glnia has given and taken. She has taken
men from other States North and South to
assist in her aSylums. One of the best su-
Derintendents in the South, DR.. ?. J.. M ur-
ply of North Carolina, held a place in the
w. l.. Asylum here as assistant physician.
1t IS herein til 1t tie Northern and Wes-
tern States get so far ahead Of us: they Ii Ike
the best from everywhere. We have been
struck with the frequent recall ence OF this
fact in the list of Southern women gradu-
ates which we have received from the Leans
of the Faculties Of the Women S Medical
Colleges in New Y DIRK and PHILADELPHIA
They give the State OF the graduate, and
the ''present address as physician in some
important public institution III Northern
State. The present woman physician at
the w. L. Asylum was an instance. She
is a South Caroinian born and brod, and
Virginia took her from the post of resident
physician at State female school in Mas
sachussetts. In list we have just gotten
we see, Virginia M. Davis, M. D., Ten
nessee, class of 1886, present address assis-
tant physician New Y ork Infant Asylum,
61st street and 10th Avenue, New York
city, and this, MARY Clara Kirkland, M.
D., Georgia, class 1887, present address
Bellows Falls, Vermont, general practice. "
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In offering Mt. Mills the second place Oh
the Ways and Means Committee, where he
had once been chairman, Speaker Crisp
made a blunder. Whether MI. Mills did
not also make blunder in not accepting 1t
will be seen hereafter. But in neither
case, and in no case, is there going to be
any division in the Democratic party over
Crisp OF Mills blunders. Speaker Crisp
is on the right track, as far as he has gone,
to give the Democracy victory in 1892 In