The evening times., 1895-12-09
'N0n[N USE IHE5liptE
Several Earnest Studeuts Of the,
Science Of Medicine Here.
ONE OF THE SUNDAY CLINICS
Interesting Talk With the. .WprhhlI,.
ers at the Altar of Science-In Love
With the Work for the Sake Of Sick
! and Suffering ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Future for the Sex In This Field.

nave you loTiueu any oIhiiioH OF WilAt tbe
words, new woman" really meant Is it
simply boomers, bicycles and cigarettes
or is 1t something deeper, involving the
tides of life, something making an absolute
reconstruction of things?
Talking with distinguished physician
| recently, Times reporter asked him II he
| thought there was any such thing .as a new.
woman. The gentleman replied that he
had every reason to think there was us he
had wife. who was a vigorous and bealthy
critic OF everything he did, and a daughter
studying medicine. Still, the doctor tiidn't
know where it was all going 10 end. He
saw that women were rushing into profess
siOns from all sides. working as earncstly'as
men,. keeping themselves purer from to-
baccO and drink than men. and really bold
ing to a better ideal. .---. ..i.s.....
Would man be supplantcd in time? He
didn't know. Certainly, man had no tight
10 withhold the privilege OF work AMI
knowledge from woman.
The interviewer thought of the words Of
great London phi ysician, I'm the mart of
knowledge he VINO gives retains, and he who
receives gains. and none suffer loss.' .,.
However, desire o see and talk with some
real, live New Women was expires sed.
The physician said there were a number of
women stud ying at one of the emetiicaiscnools
in connection with a hospital, and thought
they might be ne " enough to hat We sofnefhing
to say.
The reporter went out to the hospital on
Sunday morning. Within the gates OF this
institution is large plaza surrounded by
buildings, the school buildings, the wards for
the sick, the cook house. Here, on garden
seat under the trees, two young women were
waiting the arrival OF the doctor who held
aclinicthatmorning. They kindly consented
to take The Times woman to their Sunday
morning service with them. And what
service that was! - .--.-.
We went into the school building and
through into wing where the operating
room is situated. Fancy entering sort OF
chapel, around you being a steep amphi-
ihedter Of seats, while below and in front,
entirely separated from you. is a marble pit
with entrances from either side.
looked at this curiously and was told IL
was the operating space. We sat dpwD to
wait the beginning or the service which was
to be 10 humanity first, and we talked ''- ''
How did We come to go into medicine?
The desire to really know life and amount
10 something in IL was what influenced me-
Whathds your work sofar done for you?''
well" and the speaker smiled seri-'
ousiy, lit has certainly broadened my mind
and given me something to live for. My life
is so full now / doU't have time to think
OF M yself much"
She had frank, open eoun;enance- and a
cheerful, encouraging eye. Shelooked mere
over, self-reliant. The experiment seemed
to he working well in her case.
do you remember your first visit 10 the
dissecting ROOM"
Il do, indeed, as it was fall and the sub
Ject, which was a trifle stale had not been
enbalmed. There was an odor which
worked on my already apprchcnsive state
of mind, and made me wish / was out of it
all.
FORGOT THE ODOR- i.s
But then the professor came in and
began bis lecture. As soon as he began
to describe the muscles became interested.
l forgot the odor and the morbid dread: 1t
was science, and that was the an-engross-
ing NATTER
But the face OF the ubject-did il not .
reproach your
''The face is always covered Until we
come t" work upon 1t. That is a little bit
Of medical ethics"
And you dissectcd with the male stu
dents. What do yuu think of cocducdtiou:'
"Coeducatiun in medicine is a paoied
question, certainly. A good deal of what
we think of things is prejudice, after ALL
believe in womanliness and rn,tiesty, but
how Ia relieve pain? And If we can study
10 advantage with men, why should a
wrong way of looking at things keep US
pack from progress2'
There is not man in our classes who
mas ever shown the slightest shade of dis
respect to the women We are all In \
ensely drawn into the thing we are study
ng. The idea OF sex is lost sight of. on
he mental plane there is no sex, and it
seems TO the our heritage Is tn be free from
hat physical idea.''
And then the spirit of the faculty has
much to do with il. A student would be |
promptly dropped from the college if he |
were ow-minded enough to make any !
trouble ur uneasiness for the women
Have you any idea of being Specialist |
doubtless that will be the outcome. |
But do You know everything we go into !
becomes ST. satisfactory for the time being !
we all want to center On that. When first |
studied anatomy I Thought I should like |
nothing better than tu be an anatomist. !
With materia medica ii was the same thing. |
barteriology, everything that |
comes along takes possession OF Inc. So !
'ancy 1 shall try general practice when |
I'M ready for 1t. until can decide what |
really do like the best
THE COMPOUND PRACTICE
The conversation with these girls was |
of young men, with earnest bright faces, |
though many uf them wore shabby coats and |
hey said: L
"Get dow n in front. DR.. Williams is going
% bring in that mau With the compound |
racture.''
So down we scrambled to the seats around |
he altar WALL for I kept thinking of this
marble Enclosure as the altar reared by
cience to humanity.
Iucame a procession of whitc-robed priests,
otherwise internes, senior students and
lurse. The men Wore white shoes and trou-
ers and white gowns, with sleeves tucked
lp to the elbow. They wheeled In table
With a man outstretclied upon it, covered
,ver with sheets. except where one leg was
evealed in plaster cast. While the interne
vent to work on the cast to remove It the
divided to give place to the surgeon
The talk that he gave them during the
rogress of this operation. was mostly on
septic surgery. and it involved many eth
ral epigrams. 1t was practical Sunday
norning demonstration of God-like.use OF
he mind and brain. -.-i.--
Oliver Wendell Holmes says: "If for the
all OF man science comes to substitute
he rise of man. 1t will mean the utter dis
migration of all the pessimisms which
ave been cramp In the brain and an ache |
D the heart OF humanity for centuries"
All! why did he not substitute the rise of
roman? Is not this the true accomplish
lent of the century, ---'------.s.---i 4