The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-20
STEADY ADVANCE.
the Medical Education of Women In Eng
land During Recent Years.

The Medical Education of Women In Eng
land During Recent Years.
Nothing can be regarded as more sat-
isfactory than the steady advance which
has been manifested by the London
School of Medicine For Women. The
last years report shows that 3 students
have passed in the various examinations
at the University of London, q 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
versity of Ireland, the Society of Apoth-
ecaries in London, and at the Scotch
College of Physicians and Surgeons. 1t
is also to be noted that, in the case of
the male lecturers who have seeded or
resigned, their places have been filled
by properly qualified women In Scot
land also a new medical school for
women has been established, named
after the founder-the Mairhead Col
lege For Women. About three years
since Dr.. MuiIhead died, leaving the
large sum Of e34, 600 for the purpose of
erecting and endowing as far as prac-
ticable a college for the instruction of
women in science, to fit them to become
medical practitioners, dentists or scien-
tific experts. This he desired to be sit
uated near the Victoria infrmaTy, in
order to afford facilities for clinical in
struction. DR. Muirhead, it appears,
was an individual Of very strong per-
sOnality and he insisted in his deed of
settlement that this college was not to
be called the Victoria college, after the
infr1nary 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-
L L
lated that neither medical men nor
clergymen were to act as trustees, and
that no theological instruction was to
be given.
1t was hoped that the Muirhead en-
dowment could be worked in conjunc-
ton with the Queen Margaret Medical
college, now absorbed into the Glasgow
university, and is, ln 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 rival to Queen Margaret 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 it's funds, conditions which
sequently q difficulty exists, and no ar
rangement which would provide Glas-
gov with one strong medical school for
women appears for the present to be
practicable.
That some satisfactory arrangement
will eventually be made with regard to
the Muirhead College For Women is
undoubted, and its establishment may
be regarded as marking a distinct adj
vance in the education of medical wom-
en- 1t is not without interest to trace
the result of the movement for the edu-
cation of women in medicine since the
establishments of the London school, now
more than 20 years ago. The number of
duly qualified and registered medical
women that have beer educated, either
wholly or partially, at this institution
is 137. OF these nine have since died,
but the great majority OF the others are
in practice not only in England, but in
other parts of the world, more especial
~ in India FOrty-one qualified women
are also on the register who have not
been students at the London school,
making altogether a total approaching
nearly 200 women, who are fulfilling the
honorable duties of the profession that
they have chosen London Queen.