unembarrassed exhibition of special
cases to the other students by themselves. We encouraged our
students to visit the hospital upon this view, sustained by our
confidence in the sound judgment and high-minded courtesy of the
medical gentlemen in charge of the wards. All the objections that
have been made to our students' admission to these clinics seem
to be based upon the mistaken assumption that they had designed
to attend them indiscriminately. As we state distinctly and
unequivocally that this was not the fact, that they had no idea
or intention of being present except on one day of the week, and
when no cases which it would not be proper to illustrate before
both classes of students would necessarily be brought in--it
seems to us that all these objections are destroyed, and we
cannot but feel that those fair-minded professional gentlemen,
who, under this false impression as to facts, have objected to
our course, will, upon a candid reconsideration, acknowledge that
our position is just and intrinsically right. The general
testimony of those who attended the Saturday clinics last winter
at the Philadelphia Hospital at Blockley, when about forty ladies
made regular visits, was that the tone and bearing of the
students were greatly improved, while the usual cases were
brought forward and the full measure of instruction given without
any violation of refined propriety.

We maintain, in common with all medical men, that science is
impersonal, and that the high aim of relief to suffering humanity
sanctifies all duties: and we repel, as derogatory to the science
of medicine, the assertion that the physician who has risen to
the level of his high calling need be embarrassed, in treating
general diseases, by the presence of earnest women. The movement
for woman's medical education has been sustained from the
beginning by the most refined, intelligent, and religious women,
and by the noblest and best men in the community. It has ever
been regarded by these as the cause of humanity, calculated in
its very nature to enlarge professional experience, bless women,
and refine society. It has in our own city caused a college and a
hospital not only to be founded, but to be sustained and endowed
by those who have known intimately the character and object