The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-09
Dr. Emily Dunnins,
 Ambulance Surgeon

Gouverneur Hospital is in New York city, and the district patrolled by it's ambulances is one of the most crowded as well as toughest in the great town. Young doctors are appointed to it's med ical stan by competitive examination. Among the physici~%s who took the examination last winter for appointment as interne to Gouverneur Hospital was fine and handsome young lady, Dr. Emily Dunning. She was well educated. In 1897 she was graduated from the scien- tiic department of Cornell University and received her degree as B. S. In the aU- tumn following she entered the, medical department of the University and ground away four years longer. this time on bones, tissues, chemistry and medicines. At the end of the time she was graduated again. now with an M D. to her name. besides the B. s. What Is more, she stood at the head of the whole class in medical scholarship. class of both men and women.
 After Dr. Emily Dunning was grad uated as M. D. in 1901 she rested a few months following her eight strenuous years of study. Then she entered the of- flee of Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi in New York, working and studying still. There she remained till she took the competi- tive examination and got her appointment
 
 Hospital. The appointments were made from applicants of the first rank in the list. and among these pr. Dunning was fourth. She got her appointment as hos pital interne last January.
 She served six months as house phy- sician. Then came the next step, an- swerins hurry calls on the medical ambu- lance. Not day passes but the hospi- tai ambulances are seen in all parts of Mem A.. A of somebody who has been suddenly hurt or stricken. either with illness or alco- hol. Dr. Dunning's certificate As hospital ambulance surgeon is. 50 far as is known, the first one ever granted to a woman anywhere at any time.
 When she got her place in the hospital last January she told those who asked her that she intended to do duty when her turn came to be an ambulance sur geon and ruin to hurry calls like a man. and she has kept her word. The Ambu- lance surgeon must serve every day from to o'clock for six months. When hee turn came she mounted the amhuiance's back seat and rattled off to answer q call, fearlessly and with dignity and with no more fuss than as if women doctors had been acting as ambulance surgeons ever since the days of Eve. She did not act as if she was mentally calling all the world to witness the extraordinary part she, d woman, Dr. Emily Dunning, was playing. Blessed be the woman who does things without fuss!
 The story of her first days experience ''on the bus is a lively and entertaining one. At 10 in the morning a call came for the Gouverneur Hospital ambulance The girl surgeon jumped into it aild said, Go ahead. Tom." to the driver. It rat tied up in a hurry to the place whence the call had come. A pretty girl of g sat on the surgeons seat, her arms through the leather straps hanging from the top of the vehicle. She wore eye glasses, the regulation surgeons cap and had red cross on the left sleeve of her white shirt waist. The crowd stared, the policeman stared. everybody stared, as