s of
this work, and the aims and efforts of those connected with it.
It has this year brought to this city some fifty educated and
earnest women to study medicine, women who have come to this
labor enthusiastically but reverently, as to a great
life-interest and a holy calling. These ladies purchased tickets,
and entered the clinic of the Pennsylvania Hospital, with no
obtrusive spirit, and with no intention of interfering with the
legitimate advantages of other students. If they have been forced
into an unwelcome notoriety, it has not been of their own
seeking.

ANN PRESTON, M. D., _Dean_.

EMELINE H. CLEVELAND, M. D., _Secretary_.

We are indebted to James Truman, D. D. S., of the Pennsylvania
College of Dental Surgery, for the following account of the
admission of women into that branch of the medical profession:

The general agitation of the question: What are women best
qualified for in the struggle for existence? naturally led
liberal minds to the opening of new avenues for the employment of
their talents, shared equally with men. Her right to practice in
medicine had been conceded after a long and severe conflict. Even
the domain of the theologian had been invaded, but law and
dentistry were as yet closed, and in the case of the latter,
unthought of as an appropriate avocation for women. The subject,
however, seemed so important, presenting a field of labor
peculiarly suited to her, that one gentleman, then professor in
the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, felt it his duty to
call public attention to this promising work. In a valedictory
delivered by him to the class of 1866, at Musical Fund Hall of
Philadelphia, he included in his theme the peculiar fitness of
dentistry for women. The question was briefly stated, but it
rather startled the large audience by its novelty, and the effect
was no less surprising on the faculty, board of trustees and
professional gentlemen on the platform.

In the fall of 1868 the dean of the Pennsylvania College of
Dental Surgery was waited upon by a German gentleman, who desired
to introduce a lady who had come to this country with the
expectation that all colleges were open to women. Although
informed that this was not the case, he still entertained the