70 Early Practice of Medicine by Women. [February, 
The young woman who seeks intellectual training of a 
more technical character, with a view to adopting a pro- 
fessional career, will find many avenues opening up with 
constantly increasing privileges and faciltties. The student 
in art, thanks to the philanthropy of our venerable citizen, 
Peter Cooper, can, without incurring expense, acquire a 
knowledge of designing or of wood-engraving which will 
hardly fail to secure for her a competence. The student in 
biology will receive her share of attention at a summer 
school of science on our Atlantic seaboard, or held in con- 
nection with some enterprising institution of learning. 
The student in pharmacy and chemistry can conduCt her 
researches on an equality with men, or, if she prefer, in 
laboratories controlled and officered in large part by women 
themselves. 
The student in medicine now gains access to medical col- 
leges in nearly every State in the Union, and the legitimacy 
of her pursuit as well as her ability to grapple with it gain 
increasing advocates. “ She is no longer regarded as too 
good and too stupid to study medicine.” The candidate for 
medical honours also finds in Boston, Philadelphia, New 
York, and Chicago, well-appointed schools of medicine espe- 
cially adapted to her needs, with corps of trained and 
sympathising instructors ready to lend a helping hand. 
Looking across the Atlantic, we find countries so lately 
intolerant of the intellectual advancement of woman at last 
yielding, not always gracefully, to the inevitable. The little 
republic of Switzerland, and the mighty empire of Russia 
have for many years manifested practical sympathy with the 
cause ; and now, slowly yet surely, conservative England 
begins to recognise the faCf that the Anglo-Saxon race, with 
its boasted love of liberty, has been neglectful of its duty to 
womankind. 
To trace any more fully the history of the recent period 
does not fall within the province of our address ; we look to 
the pioneers of this movement who are still with us, for an 
exhaustive and authentic record such as participators and 
eye-witnesses alone can supply. 
