Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-04
WOMEN ARE SHOWING
PROGRESS IN MEDICINE
Wartime Calls Have Caused En-
largement OF Many Col
leSes Abroad.
WAR COURSES ARE PROVIDED
Medical College OF Virginia to Throw
Opcn Its Schools OF Medicine, Den
tistry and Pharmacy AT beginning
Of Coming Session.

send, US any women a any salary"
was the pithy command the secretary
Of the Womcns Medical School. Of
London. received from one OF the
largest English hospitals. The mes
sage came, however, not at the begin
ming Of the war when the worth Of
the English woman as war physician
was unproven but much. much later
when she had been carefully weighed
in the balance and found 20 topp!e the
scales in no uncertain manner.
The work of medical women is
of special interest to Nircinians now
on account Of the achievement OF the
fearless women OF the allied powers
who have SO CALAMITY undertaken
every task placed upon them. and also
because In Richmond women arc 10 I've
admitted 10 the Medical College of
Virginia. into the schools OF medicine.
dentistry and pharmacy and to spe-
riciln n army laboratories
In 1914 the British government de-
c!ined the hospital uni; offered by the
Scottish wnmen's hospitals. and France
completely reversed her policy To-
day the hndell street Hospital. in Lon
don. in which such remarkable recon
struction work has been done is en-
urely In charge OF women. The three
men in England who were perhaps the
mCst formidable obstructionists the
Woman movement poSsesscd-I.o
Curzon. Mr.. AsGuith and MIR Balfour-
signed a joint appeal for women 20
study medicine
ENGLISH MEDICAL
SCHOOLS BEING ENLARGED
The sim OF $4,000 is being raised
10 increase the capacity OF the lare-
n.af riTnf
women may now be accommodated
thc London school of Medicine. which
so long closed it's doors to women an
otican's- Speaking at meeting 10
Liise FUNDS for this purpose Alfred
feoEh, director-Eenerai OF the army
corps paid more than an EnElishmau's
trieute 10 women's war work. STATING
mat he had received unsolicited lct
'erS from BouloEnc and Paris which
pronounced the war work of meal
women beyond praise So Immersed
was nc that he had asked two Of the
stan 10 come to London and do hin.
ser work-to take charge Of 4 hos.
pital OF 500 beds. If they pleased. ZOO
beds t'V''
The reward has come at las, 70 49,
women OF England. the onh, r,wsrG
Tot winch they have ever strivo,,ho
nance to be Of greater service ia ,h.ir
nouhlrS' since the unspcakable sum
'her or 1914 wherever tho British no
mas hoatcd, whether from ha.n 80
tN"l or munltion factory. from -
me trenches to tho swear shonS
81 LONDON. from bus and ,ran,w.y -
80 pes' Goa! mine, English women
oecn found true 10 the ronr,rv
ShoSe heritage OF rich tradition. ,
49, hoPes 'hey nave ConSccraied ,bo,,.
ives 10 preserve. Fully has M. 49,,
"o'hah won the recognition III
f'ss been accorded her ''''
FULFILLING WoMAN.s
fLEDGE TO ENGI,\D
.neoicai women have merely bcc, IN,
~. Noid" pledge 10 England Al,
me beginning Of the war IN. sno,.,'
"omcn's Hospitals orcanjzna ="
eHu'eiF hospitals in Belgium, t,r,,
A"o serbia The first unit. cs,,hIi-to,
III brussels fell into the hand 80, -,
enemy who took the women for sr,a'
was with great difficulty ma, ,h.,.
esta o!ishcd their conncciio,, u.,.h
ed ross and thus escaped the Iaa,b
penalty. The woman's uni, 81, -
curing the homhardmcn, Of ,ha
vas under lire for eighteen hours ~
rs !e!uSe IN the cellars whore .bv
'ed constantly for the wounded sol.
80 oFo"shi 10 them. Thc women
olS ana their assistants were The
'ast 10 escape over the bridge nf h,,
which Immediately afterwards ~ C"u
tiiahs destroyed IS fire." Tn. ho.nf,,l
az :Abbaye DE- Noyauiuun,. s,,nod ,.'
'e'! w women, has perhaps a NOR
feha rNahle record than any Other MS
P''a! IN France. During ,h. frs, NO.,
years OF lis existence 2.5.7 pa;icn,s
were received; 2S2a operations ,y,r,,
PERFORMED and only forty cigh, deaths
"'currcd-l' per cent Of tho persons
gared f'r The Scottish Womcn's Hos
P!'a' units sent through Russia w.r..
n'Non 10 the country through
"N'eh they passed. but possibly ,be
mos' dramatic war work was accom-
p.iShed by tAe units sent INTO Serbia
HHNeTa! hospitals in the c-uoined li,.jc
country nav" been under tho EAR. OF
Women surgeons. students ana nurses
IRON the Royal Free iIospi,al