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Excerpt from Woman's Work in the Field of Medicine
In the above letter of Dr. Holmes can be found some of the reasons why medical schools for women have usually proved unsuccessful. They have under taken too much in compelling women to go through the whole curriculum of surgery, pharmacy, materia medica, jurisprudence, etc. Take, for instance, the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirm ary of the City of New York. An excellent institu tion, thoroughly organized, well equipped with every appliance to enable the student to prepare herself for the practice of medicine, and a corps of professors and instructors that would do honor to any college; yet in the last fourteen years they have only graduated ninety-seven, an average of seven a year, and after fourteen years of hard work on the part of its mana gers, the graduating class of 1883 contained five. Ad mitting that women are capable of assuming and main taining as high a rank in the profession as men, and hoping that the door of every institution of learning will be thrown wide open for their entrance, there still \remains su?icient cause for asserting that to make regu lar practitioners of medicine of women will, except in a few isolated cases, prove unsuccessful.
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