The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30


thorough course in the science in Wash
ington, becoming postgraduate student
in Johns Hopkins hospital in. Baltimore.
Later she studied in the Pasteur Institute
in Paris and was an, assistant in the
Bandelocque hospital. From there she
went to Munich and became resident as
sistant physician at the Royal University
Hospital for. Women. Returning to Wash
ington at the end of her studies, she soon
took high rank among the physicians Of
that city, 80
The question whether a woman
should be physician finds it's affirma-
tive answer in the history of man
kind. From time immemorial the care
of the sick has been in the hands of
women. To-day the only civilized ma.
ton which still opposes the study of
medicine by women-Germany-
could learn a valuable lesson by look.
ing back into its earlier history.
Not only in the land of, the mid
night sun, but likewise in the extreme
south of Europe, do we find the medi-
cal woman mentioned in olden times.
We hear of women physicians and
surgeons in the ninth and tenth cen
turtles in the then Arabian Spain.
When in 1S47 Elizabeth Blackwell
of New York, commenced to study
medicine she was generally looked
upon as freak. The difficulties she
encountered would fill volumes. Not
satisfied with the honor of pioneer
in her native. country this intrepid
young woman went to England and
succeeded, after patient struggle, in
opening the doors of British schools
and hospitals to women in 1850.
p Another American woman was the
first to enter the University of Paris
DR.. Mary Putnam Jacobi in 1868.
Again it was an American woman
DR.. Klumpke-Dejarine, who held the
first hospital position in Paris.
This country was the first to have
hospital for women and children
founded and managed by women. The
New York infrmary is now half a cen
fury old. For the last 20 years it has
maintained a medical college.
The Woman's Medical college oil
Pennsylvania has been in existence
over SO years and it's graduates are an
honor to.tS the medical. profession
Among its founders and teachers are
names which will go down to pos
terity.
Ann Arbor admits women and the
Woman's Hospital Medical college o.
Chicago, many state universities, Cal
ifornia, Michigan, Iowa and man,
other excellent schools furnish thor
ough medical training to the woman
of to-day.
1t was proud moment when the
Johns Hopkins threw open it's door:
to women.
Many blessing was poured upo1
the heads of our pioneers of SO year:
ago. This country is called the para
disc of women, and we can well under
stand why when we look around u!
and see the responsible and honorable
positions which women fill in ever.
state of the union. They are physi
clans and surgeons to hospitals ant
dispensaries, obstetricians in publ,
hospitals and private charities. Their,
is hardly a well-regulated insane asy
lum without its woman physician.
Has the woman doctor been a sue
cess? Let the numbers answer thi'
question.
In 1850 there were eight womel
doctors in this country. In 1900 on
number had swelled to 5000.
Switzerland. admits women to thl
study Of medicine on the same footin,
with men since 1864, and many re
sponsible positions are filed credit
! ably by them. especially in hospital