GIRL STUDENT IN 1400.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 22 November 1913, Page 14

GIRL STUDENT IN 1400.

An article on the ■woman doctor, 1 Wanda dc Szaramowicz. which appeal in the October Issue of 4} '■ Pan Mall Magazine," tells the foilo* ing story of the sad fate which overtoo an enterprising jjirl medical student i th« fifteenth century. The writer say that it is recorded by a certain Germ& priest mimed "Martin, in a letter writia by him to Queen Hedwije. that to tl academy of medical science attached t his monastery at Vienna there came; certain yonn? man. He was young! than any of the other students, but i was soon noticeable that none coni approach him either for application to his (kttiee or in power to assimikt learning, and ,'pee'dily he became ,tii show student of the academy—the In loved erf his tutors. Imagine, then, ti scandal, when one fin? day it is & covered that the prodigy is none otlu than a young girl. The learned mo-Hi deeply shocked, put their -heads togetk to deal with Hie criminal. They que tioned her eearchingly. Why had el donned male attire? "For love of a ence," came th« astonishing reply. |Al< for the sequel. This gentle seeker a|| knowledge was deemed guilty, but : view of her attainments was not st to a common prison. Instead she to ordered to be incarcerated for a numb of years in a convent of nuns.