Female Doctors in America.
There are at the present moment nearly 400 female physicians in active practice in twentysix of the United States, the majority of them being settled in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. These figures show a very rapid increase in the number of women practising medicine in the United States. A few years ago a lady doctor was more or less a rara avis ; now there is scarely a village in any one of the Eastern States which cannot boast of at least one such practitioner. In Russia twelve female doctors are now officially engaged in teaching medicine to women. Thirty are in the service of the Zemstvos, and forty others serve the hospitals. Twenty-five female doctors who took part in the military operations of 1877 have been decorated, by order of the Emperor, with tho Order of St, Stanislas of the Third Class. The number of female students is steadily^ increasing.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1598, 8 July 1882, Page 27
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