Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-10

attending the Friends Select School IN
Philadelphia was Stunned by her play
mates who pelted her with stones and
sticks refusing to admit her to any oil
their childish sports. They called her
"the woman doctors child a term in
tended to convey as much reproach as
that of ..witch's daughter in New Eng
land colonial days. This little girl. who
now is the wife of Rudolph Blankenburg,
mayor of Philadelphia, was the daughter
of DR. Hannah Longshore. the first wom-
an physician of Pennsylvania.
The Woman's Medical College of Penn
sylvania was established chiefly through
her influence. aided by that OF her broth
er-in-law DIR. Joseph Longshore. DR.. Han
nah Longshore was young Quakeress
who became imbued with the idea that she
wanted to devote her life to the work of
healing the sick. Her husband had so
much faith in her that he assisted her in
every way, even to the extent of per-
forming many of her household duties in
order to give her time to pursue her
studies. After she had completed her
course of study and received her diploma
from the first class which graduated in
the newly established medical college
the young woman had years of tedious
struggle, for even the most progressive
people were not willing to place conf
dence in a woman physician.
Finally a man whose little daughter
had been the leader in tormenting little
Lucretia Longshore
Saves Life, at school became so
n.l pa i'll with typhoid
MAKES RECORD. fever that all of the
physicians called in gave up his case as
hopeless. AS a last resort DR.. Hannah
Longshore was permitted to see him. Her
mnistrations. united with the good nurs-
ing she was able to give him at time
when trained nurses We're unheard Of
saved his life and established her OWE
success. DR.. Hannah ! ongshore died re-
Gently at an advanced age, leaving d
handsome estate. happy in the knowledge
that she had not only helped suffering
humanity herself but had paved the way
for thousands of other women to do So
The Women's Medical College of Penn
sylvania, founded in 1850, was the first to
give medical training to women. Others
followed, and. by degrees, mems colleges
were induced to extend their privileges to
women. There are now sixty colleges of
the regular school of medicine open to
women in this country. These are dis
trfbuted SO we'll over the country that
most women now may take medical de-
least ten homeopathic medical colleges
granting degrees to women, and all of
the schools of osteopathy are open as
freely to women as to men. The sign of
a woman physician now attracts no more
attention than that of a man, and woman
physicians are filling many public offices
acceptably.
DR.. Anne F. Ries. a young woman of
Ogden, Utah, recently was made city
physician and quarantine officer, although
os~rl,&
worked against her. DR.. Ries has been
especially active and energetic in the
performance of her duties. few months
after her appointment she rode seven
miles upon the cowcatcher of an engine
in pursuit of a man who had passed
through Ogden and was suspected of hav-
ing the smallpox.
The value of the woman physician to
humanity is especially great i'm heather
countries where
service OF Value they go as mis-
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seclusion under which the women of some
nations live they can have no medical
attendance because the laws of their
country forbid any man outside of their
families to look upon their faces When
a woman fell ill under those conditions
there was little help for her until the
appearance of the woman medical mis-
slonaries. whose ministrations are said to
have been more potent in breaking down
the barriers of heathendom than any
other one influence. BY her entrance into
the harem or zenans the woman physi-
clan has been able to give the gospel
message to the mothers Of the nation who
never could have received il otherwise.
The past quarter of a century has given
hundreds of woman physicians to mis-
sionary work.
The path of the woman preacher is not
yet smooth. Many churches refuse to re-
ceive her, but each year opens new pull
pits TO her services. There are at least
n1ty schools and colleges in the United
States from which women are able to
secure theological degrees. Last year
4od women were engaged in theological
studies and fifty-one received degrees for
the completion of their courses. There
are few large cities in which one or more
woman preachers are not in charge of
their own churches, although so far the
greatest number OF women in this pro-
fession are acting as assistants to man
pastors.
One of the leading woman preachers in
the world is DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, the
president of
Ur. Anna II. Shaw thu National
A IN T. a n
AAOASSSAoA0' Woman Suf-
frage Association. She secured her theo-
logical degree from the Boston University
in 1878. and her degree as doctor of medi-
cine from the same institution a few
years later. J. Methodist by conviction,
DR.. Shaw was denied ordination in the
New England Methodist Episcopal Con
ference on account of her sex, although
she passed the highest examination of