Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1914 — Turkish Women Study Medicine. [ARTICLE]

Turkish Women Study Medicine.

Medicine has been practiced by Turkish women for some time, because it is only recently that men doctors have been allowed within the harem. Curiously enough, it is one pf the oldest superstitions of the Mohammedan world that has the greatest impetus to medical studies for women. It is thought among the Moslems that the last wish of an old woman is sacred and must be carried out at all costs. Not long ago the wife of a former grand vizier, Haihiddln pasha, died. On her death bed ehe expressed as her last wish that her twelve-year-old daughter might take special courses in medicine, similar to those given to men. There waa nothing for the government to do but to hastily open certain of these courses to women in order that they might not be cursed by ignoring the dying wish of a respected old woman. Katharine Buell, in Harper's Weekly.