at clinical instruction in medicine
and surgery, and do respectfully lay these their views before the
board of managers of the hospitals in Philadelphia.

_November 15, 1869._

At meetings held at the University and Jefferson Medical Colleges,
by the students, on Wednesday evening, the following preambles and
resolutions were adopted:

WHEREAS, The managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital have seen fit
to admit female students to the clinics of that establishment,
thereby excluding from the lectures many cases, medical and
surgical; and

WHEREAS, We consider that in our purchase of tickets of admission
there was a tacit agreement that we should have the benefit of
all cases which the medical and surgical staff of that hospital
should deem fit for our instruction:

_Resolved_, That a respectful request be made to the managers of
the Pennsylvania Hospital that we be informed as to whether the
usual character of the clinics will be changed.

_Resolved_, That pending the action of the managers on this
question, we as a class and individually absent ourselves from
the clinical lectures. And

WHEREAS, The levity of a few thoughtless young men in the
presence of the females at the hospital has caused the journals
of this city to assume that the whole class of medical students
are utterly devoid of all the attributes of gentlemen,

_Resolved_, That while we do not by any means concede that the
published accounts of the affair are correct, we deplore the fact
that _any_ demonstration should have taken place; for although
the female students may be considered by their presence at the
hospital where male students are present, to have cast aside that
delicacy and modesty which constitutes the aegis of their sex,
they are women, and as such demand our forbearance, if not our
respect.

_Resolved_, That these preambles and resolutions be published in
some respectable journal of this city.[261]

On these remonstrances of the faculty and students, _The Press_,
John W. Forney, editor, had many able editorials condemning the
action of the medical fraternity. The leading journals throughout
the country advocated the right of the women to enjoy the
advantages of the hospital clinics. _The Press_, November 22, 1869,
said:

The proceedings of the meeting held by the faculti