Note 117 — VII. WOMAN IN MEDICINE. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, May 22, 1879. The editor expresses surprise at “so frank a confession of inferiority.” Although it was only a few years since women physicians were ostracised on the ostensible ground of the necessary inferiority of their means of education, the Boston editor now, in order to confute the claim of necessity for the Harvard education, passes in most flattering review the existing schools for women at New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, and insists that these offer all the advantages any reasonable woman can want. Thus (this in 1879):
Philadelphia, 29th year, class 90 students.
New York, 10th year, class 47 students.
Chicago, 9th year, class 32 students.
“Answers to letters of inquiry show that these schools for women are looked on with great favor.”