The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22

could go into it out of spite. If she
makes life work of it she will sue
coed; If not, failure will soon appear.
III is the same with oney-making-a
woman who practised for the mere sake
Of money could do justice neither to
herself nor her patients.
Yes, there is a
SUGGESTION OF PHILANTHROPY
in our work. Women are oftener called
than men. When 1t comes to surgery
ah, that is a different case. / should
not like to be a surgeon-I have too
much sympathy. The more womanly a
woman IS, the better physician she win
make.
Il hold that general practice is the
proper thing for women. A woman
cannot practise as a man can but her
practice should be general among wo-
men and children. That is where some
women have
PREJUDICED THE PUBLIC
by holding that whatever man can
do that can a woman"
The second woman physician
visited by The Spy, was willing to talk,
although she did not wish her name
used. If you can get any copy out
OF my experience-so many years of
teaching, followed by so many more Of
practice-yOu are welcome to it.
studied medicine party because it Of
tered an opening to me as single wo-
man, partly because I was drawn to
it by instinct. l thought l could do
good and get good by means of it, and
in this 1 was not mistaken. 1t is a
blessed occupation for woman, if she
enters 1T in the right spirit
SPITE? MONEY MAKING?
"No, indeed. She must be earnest and
unselfish in her study and work, I do
not believe any woman ever became a
physician to spite any one, and if she
did, she got the worst of it herself,
think woman's mission in medicine is
general practice among women and
children"
DR.. Mary Darrell was the third wit
ness called upon by The Spy to testify
DR., Darrell thought minute after she
had been asked why she went into med
icine, then she said; "To do as much
good in the world as woman could.
was a teacher for a while, and saw that
one must be born teacher to be a sue
cess. At the same time, / felt as if 1
had a special call to be a doctor.
am very fond of children, and l wanted
to make them a speciality. l wanted to
be doing something practical.
"Then you don't consider teaching
praetical?"
For others, but not for me-" And
then she went on: SIN comparison with
men, the facilities enjoyed by women
in the study of medicine are less but
women have access to more hospitals
than they did, and beside, the attitude
of men toward them has changed with
in the last 40 years. Then there was
difficulty in getting anybody to teach
them, and the Pennsylvania Medical
school, which was the first to be opened
to women, was stigmatlzed as that
she-thing. Several professors We're
ostracised for having anything to do
with it. DR.. Costa was one of those
who objected to lecturing to women. An
old friend who was on the board of
directors said to him: If thee will not
lecture to the women, thee shall not lee
ture to the men And DR.. Da Costa
lectured to the women.
HOSPITALS OPEN TO WOMEN.
Nov, nearly every hospital in Phil
adelphia is open to women, having fol-
lowed the lead of the Pennsylvania
hospital l went to the Philadelphia
college because 1 considered 1t the best.
The Woman's medical college of Penn
sylvania is its full name, and it was
the first established for women alone,
being incorporated in 1850.
Not even yet have women equal fa-
cilities with men. Thus, at Harvard,