Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-01-08
FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 8, 1892.
THE INCREASE OF WOlLEN PLY
,SICIANS At THE SOUTH.


SICLANS At THE SOUTH.
The Lynchburg Virginian has leading
editorial On the Koiner bill to put female
physicians in the female wards OF the
insane asylums, and terms it ga question
able STEP" 1t opposes what it terms an
innovation, because ''We do not wish to
see our Virginia women lose that indies
cribable delicacy and refinement which is
their chief charm" It thinks the natural
delicacy and reserve" of the female insane
should be respected and preserved inviolate,
but thinks this demand can be met by
trained female nurses instead of women
physicians. In other words it is willing to
see our Virginia women lose THAT hides
cribable delicacy and refinement which is
their chief charm'' in the coarse duties
sweeping, washing and dong the other
dirty muscular work of trained female
nurse with the sick and insane, but can't
bear to see it imperiled by doing the clean
ly, intellectual work Of a physician! Such
logic as that is Of course unanswerable.
But while these moss grown opponents of
progress are INDUCING in such logical tri-
umphs as the above, the women Of the
South are fitting themselves by education
and experience for the great and humane
work of physicians among their own sex.
And not only fitting themselves, but thor
oughly fitting themselves in every knowl-
edge that physician can exercise in
woman's sick room. She is enabling her
self to direct the nursing of her patients as
well as to prescribe for them. Since the
appointment, two years ago, of Dr.. Callie-
vains Lee Haynes of South Carolina to the
post Of Assistant Physician on the staff of
the W. L. Asylum-the first woman ply
stefan to hold an official position in the late
Confederate States-the increase of women
medical students from the Southern States
has been marked. There are fifty-three
medical colleges open to women students
in the United States, Of which nine are
open to women only. Of these last, the
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
may be said to be the best, both as regards
its course of lectures and the clinical adj
vantages it offers through its location in
Philadelphia. To give the public an idea
OF the progress of the Southern women in
this direction we may say that in this col
1ege in 1888 but one student matriculated
from the SoGth; in 1880 there were five, and
in 1891 there were ten, making with tuose
already there twenty three in all. We have
received from student there list of the
students now there from the South which
We give below, for it will be interesting to
see what Southern women are preparing
themselves to enter the medical profession;
the thoroughness with which they are MAX
ing the preparation, and their plans for the
future. The list is headed by a Virginian:
''Chertsey Hopkins, daughter of DR.. B.
F. Hopkins. Warm Springs, Bath Co., Va.
Entered in 1891. Graduate Of Hollins In
stitute, Va. Will practice in the South.
IS. i. Winter, Maryville, East TenEes-
see; entered in 1888. In the summer Of
1889 she was jA charge of the surgical ward
of Presbyterian HospitaE Philadelphia.
In thesummer Of 1891, private nursing.
PlaM for work after graduation, practice
>as medical missionary in foreign fields.
"Mary Scott Jones, daughter of DR.. j.
FL. Jones, Dayton, Alabama; entered in
1889. Graduate Of Montgomery Female
College. Taught in both private and pub
lie schools. In the summer of 1891 assis-
ted in Pathological Laboratory and Dis
pensary in the State Hospital for the in
Birmingham. Alabama.
''Anabel B. Holmes, s.. Louis, Mis-
souri,; ent ID in 1872. Graduate of The
State Normal School, Fredonia, New Y DIRK
course in " illiametta University, medical
department, Portland. Oregon; 1885 as
sistant principal of High School, Portland,
Oregon. Will prac 5ice in the South:
Mary Beall, daughter Of q. A. Beall,
Wheeling, West Virginia: entered in 1889.
Graduate B. A. Of Wheeling Female Col
lege. Will practice as medical missionary
in foreign fields.
emma Billstein, Kentucky; entered in
1889. In 1896 81 assisted in Chemical Lab
oratory Of Woman S Medical College; 1891
1892 assistant demonstration of Histology
in the Woman S Medical College Of Penn
sylvania. Will practice in Asheville, n orth
Carolina.
Elizabeth Lawson Hall. daughter of
Morris Hall, Stockton, Missouri; entered
in 1889. In the summer of 1891 attendant
at Friends insane Asylum, Frankford,
PENNSYLVANIA. VIII practice in the South.
Margaret II. Polk, Perryville. Ken
lucky; grand daughter of j. j. Polk, NJ.
D.; daughter of w. J. Polk, NJ. D.. and
sister If J. p. Polk. M. D.; entered in
1880. Graduate of PerryviIle Harmonic
Sc ninary. Plan for work after gradua-
ton, as medical missionary in Sooclow,
China.
"Rachel Fl. Billiard, Wheeling, West
Virginia; entered in 1880. Graduate of
the Wheeling Female College, Wheeling,
West Virginia. Will practice in the South
Mrs. E. E. Barnes, Birmingham, Ala
bama: entered in 1890. Holds a certificate
from, Medical Association of Alabama.
1889 go was matron of Drs. Luckie and
Copeland's Surgical Infirmary, Birming-
ham. Will practice in Birmingham, Ala
bama.
Ann Walter. Holly Springs, Mississippi,
daughter Of Col. H.W. Walter, prominent
lawyer in the South; entered in 1890. Grad
uate of the Charlotte Female Institute of
Charlotte, North Carolina; course in Coop
Ell Medical College, San Francisco, Califor-
MIA. In the summer of 1891 a course in
abdominal surgery under DR.. Joseph Price,
in his Private Hospital, Philadelphia. VIII
no in ha South
'sSarah A. PoindeXter, Savannah, Geor-
gia; entered in 1890. Course in Barnard
College, New York, and In Woman S