es of our two
leading medical schools evince the disposition which lurks at the
bottom of the movement against women as physicians. The hospital
managers are to be browbeaten into the stand taken by the
students, and now sanctioned by the professors. If the women are
to be denied the privilege of clinical lectures, why do not
learned professors, or students, or both, have the manliness to
suggest and advocate some means of solving the difficulty so that
the rights of neither sex shall be impaired? Would any professor
agree to lecture to the women separately? Would any professor
favor the admission of women into the female wards of the
hospitals? Would any professor agree to propose anything, or do
anything that would weaken the firm stand taken against the
admission of women to professional privileges? If so, why not do
it at once? Nothing else will make protestations of fairness
appear at all genuine. Nothing else will remove the stigma of
attempting to drag the hospitals into a support of this crusade
against women. * * * How absurd the solemn declaration, "it
cannot be assumed by any right-minded person that male patients
should be subjected to inspection before a class of females,
although this inspection may, without impropriety, be submitted
to before those of their own sex." This cuts both ways. If it be
improper for female students to be present when patients of the
other sex are treated, is it proper for male students to witness
the treatment of female patients?

The practical good sense shown in the following report of a
committee of the Faculty of the Woman's Medical College of
Pennsylvania, makes a very favorable contrast with the unreasonable
remonstrances of the so-called superior sex:

PHILADELPHIA, NOV. 15, 1869.

As the relation of students of medicine to public clinics, and
the views entertained by those entitled to speak for their
medical education, are now extensively discussed in the public
journals, it seems necessary for us to state our position.
Considering it decided that, as practitioners of medicine, the
guardianship of life and health is to be placed in the keeping of
women, it becomes the interest of society and the duty of those
entrusted with their professional training to endeavor to provide