Women Doctors.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10765, 13 May 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

Women Doctors.

"Women as doctors is not, a Paris con- ■ temporary observes, a product of modern "feminisme."' It seems that m the eighteenth century there was a lady student at Florence. She came from Malta under the patronage of the Knights or Malta. The administrator of the Majeur Hospital was somewhat embarrassed with his new pupil. but he found a means out of the difficulty The chief of the Order of the Kmghis of Malta in introducing his laily prof ( ..r(. to the professors of the 1' lorence School of Medicine wrote: "It- seems to me that the matter could bo arranged without any great inconvenience if i£ie youn"- lad%' were hoarded during the perioS she was studying at your medical school with the nuns in a neighborhood

convent, for which we would pay five crowns a week. 11l regard to her instruction she should assist in operations at- the women's hospital, notably those performed by Professor Mannoni. He should also give her some private lessons at the convent, for it appears to me that she should not he present in classes with young men." . The council of the_ hospital, being well disposed to the Knights, adopted the suggestion. More than a century elapsed before another lady was enrolled in the schools of Florence. She was a Russian and was admitted to the schools of Santa uMaria Nuova.