The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-07-02
STEADY ADVANCE.


The Medical Educatlon or Women In Eng
hand During Recent Years.
Nothing can be regarded as more sat
isfacsory than the steady advance which
has been manifested by the London
School of Medicine For Women. The
last years report shows that ID students
have passed in the various examinations
at the University of London. a more
than average proportion of whom took
honors in anatomy, medicine and OBJ
stetrics, and several other students have
passed their examinations at the Uni
yersity of Ireland, the Society Of Apoth-
ecaries in London, and at the Scotch
College of Physicians and Surgeons IL
In also to be noted that, in the case of
the male lecturers who have seeded or
resigned, their places have been filed
by properly qualified women. In Scot
land also q new medical school for
women has been established. named
after the fcunder-the Muirhead Col
lege For Women. About three years
since DIR. Muirhead died, leaving the
large sum of e34, 600 for the purpose Of
erecting and endowing as far as prac-
ticable q college for the instruction of
women In science, TO ft them TO become
medical practitioners. dentists or scien-
tiic experts. This he desired TO be sit
uated near the Victoria infirmary, i'm
order TO afford facilities for clinical i'm
strnction. DR.. Muirhead, it appears.
was an individual Of very strong per-
sonality, and he insisted i'm his deed of
settlement that this college was not to
be called the Victoria college, after the
infirmary with which it Is associated,
nor the Queens college, after the Queen
Margaret. College For Women, which
is already part and parcel Of the Glas.
Cow university, and he further stipu-
lated that neither medical men nor
clergymen were to act as trustees, and
that no theological instruction was Ia
be given
It was hoped that the Muirhead en-
dowment could be worked in conjunc.
tion with the Queen Margaret Medical
college, now absorbed into the Glasgow
university, and is In fact, the women's
department of that institution, but such
was not found TO be possible, and there
fore the trustees of the proposed Muir
head college have determined TO erect
what must be regarded in some sense
as o rival to Queen Mmgaret college.
The University Of Glasgow, having alb
sorbed and assumed the entire control
OF the latter, desired TO have the same
power over the new Muirhead college
and over its funds conditions which
the trustees refused 10 entertain. Con
s~equently o difficulty exists, and no ar
rangement which would provide Glas-
cow with a strong medical school fol
women appears for the present TO b.
practicable.
That some satisfactory arrangement
will eventually be made with regard u
the Muirhead College For Women Ii
undoubted, and its establishment may
be regarded as marking q distinct ad
vance I'M the education of medical won
en-. It Is not without interest to TRACK
the result Of the movement for the edu
cation Of women in medicine since th,
establishment of the London school. nov
more than 90 years ago. The number d
duly qualified and registered medica
women that have been educated, eithel
wholly or partially, at this institution
lis 1877. OF these nine have since died
but the great majority Of the others ar'
in practice not only in England, but II
other parts OF the world, more especial
~ In India Forty-one qualified womei
are also ON the register who have no
been students at the London school
making altogether d total approaching
nearly 900 women, who are fulfilling tn
honorable duties Of the profession thu
they have chosen--London Queen