The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-21
Copyright. by Joseph B. Bowles.J

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IN Germany Desiring to study medicine
she came to the United States and took q
thorough course in the science in Wash
ington, becoming a postgraduate student
in Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore
Later she studied in the Pasteur Institute
in Paris and was an assistant in the
!. BapdelQcque 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)
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.
tion which still opposes the study of
medicine by women-Germany-
could learn valuable lesson by look.
ing back into it's 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
turies 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
succeeded, after patient struggle, in
opening the doors of British schools
and hospitals to women in 1850.
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
a hospital for women and children,
founded and managed by women. The
New York infirmary is now half cen
tury old. For the last 20 years it has
maintained medical college.
The Woman's Medical college of
Pennsylvania has been in existence
over so years and it's graduates are an
honor to the medical profession.
Among it's founders and teachers are
names which will go down to pos.
terity.
Ann Arbor admits women and the
Woman's Hospital Medical college of
Chicago. many state universities, Cal
ifornia, Michigan, Iowa and many
other excellent schools furnish a thor.
ough medical training to the woman
of today.
1t was proud moment when the
Johns Hopkins threw open its doors
to women.
Many a blessing was poured upon
the heads of our pioneers of SO years
ago. This country is called the para.
disc of women, and we can we'll under.
stand why when we look around us
and see the responsible and honorable
positions which women fill in every
state of the union. They are physi-
clans and surgeons to hospitals and
dispensaries. obstetricians in public
hospitals and private charities. There
is hardly well-regulated insane asy.
lum without it's woman physician.
Has woman doctor been a sue.
cess net the numbers answer this
question.
In 1850 there were eight women
doctors in this country In 1900 our
number had swelled to 5000.
Switzerland admits women to the
study OF medicine on the same footing
with men since 1854. and many re-
sponsible positions are filled credit.
ably W them. especially in hospitals