The influence of women in the profession of medicine : address given at the opening of the winter session of the London School of Medicine for Women / by Elizabeth Blackwell.

  • Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910.
Date:
1889
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Credit: The influence of women in the profession of medicine : address given at the opening of the winter session of the London School of Medicine for Women / by Elizabeth Blackwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    My Dear Young Friends, T N the short time that we meet together to-day, I -»■ will ask you to let me dwell upon the way in which the most beneficial influence of women in the medical profession may be exercised. I wish also to point out certain dangers, as well as advantages, with which medical study is now surrounded. The avenues by which all may enter into the pro- fession are now so much more widely thrown open, that there is little difficulty in the way of any man or woman who may wish to acquire a legal right to practise medicine. In Paris, all the public medical institutions, both college and hospital, are thrown open to students without distinction of sex. Not only as ordinary students, but as internes and ex- ternes, sex is no longer regarded there as a barrier to opportunity and position. The democratic principle is everywhere steadily gaining ground, and the indi- vidual allowed to try his strength in the great battle of life. Large numbers of women are taking advan- tage of this wider individual liberty to enter the medical profession. In Great Britain, our seventy- three registered lady-doctors are few compared with the 3,000 in the United States, yet the nine stu- A