Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF WOMEN THE only university I visited was the Medical University, the Escuela Practica de Medicina, which has a very fine building situated opposite the Hospital Nacional de Clinica on the Calle Cordoba between Andes and Junin, in which the medical students receive their final training. This medical training is a seven years' course; that of the apothecary four years, and that of the midwife three. They have very few trained nurses as almost all such work is done by the Sisters of Charity. Dr. Moreau emphasized the medical importance of this hospital which is connected with the university, as standing out as a hospital where the Sisters of Charity are under the control of the doctors. In many of the other hospitals, which from the point of view of buildings may be more perfect, the Sisters of Charity have the last word, and if they do not agree with the doctor as to the medicine the patient requires, they can supersede his authority. In consequence, the doctors are making a tremendous fight against this. So far they have not been successful, owing to the prejudice of the wealthy women in favor of the Catholic Church, for many of these hospitals are under "La Sociedad de Beneficencia." We first went through the hospital, which is one of the oldest in Buenos Aires, and in consequence has more of the beauty which always seems to linger about the past. I often wonder whether the people of the past loved beauty more than we do today, that they were able to create an atmosphere which it is so difficult to find in modern times or buildings. The old, grey garden walls enclosed vistas of yew tree walks, down which one saw a priest walking in meditation, or old statues, grey with age, almost forgotten, breathing an...
