Poetry Archives

That in 1869 Miss Jex-Blake and four other women entered for a medical
degree at the University of Edinburgh?

That the president of the College of Physicians refused to give the
women the prizes they had won?

That the undergraduates insulted any professor who allowed women to
compete for prizes?

That the women were stoned in the streets, and finally excluded from
the medical school?

That in 1877 the British Medical Association declared women ineligible
for membership?

That in 1881 the International Medical Congress excluded women from all
but its “social and ceremonial meetings”?

That the Obstetrical Society refused to allow a woman’s name to appear
on the title page of a pamphlet which she had written with her husband?

That according to a recent dispatch from London, many hospitals, since
the outbreak of hostilities, have asked women to become resident
physicians, and public authorities are daily endeavoring to obtain women
as assistant medical officers and as school doctors?