Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1876 — Female Doctors in Europe. [ARTICLE]

Female Doctors in Europe.

A correspondent of the Bund of Berne has lately summed up in successive letters from Zurich the present results of the much-contested " Damenstudium.” It is now exactly ten years since the first female student clamored at the gates, or rather since the Medical Faculty opened the gates to her; for she had been attacking them by a diligent prosecution of the, medical course. She was a young Russian lady. The University of Zurich, on the 14th pf December, 1867, conferred upon her the dignity and rights of a Doctor of Medicine. Doctor or Doctress Brismann has since practiced medicine with great success—first alone, and Jater .as the wife and partner of a medical iian. Twelve young ladies have followed* ber example* all of them standing the test of (the severe examination with credit, -and some with brilliancy. Each of %ese ladies bas received from the Medical Faculty of the University the degree of Doctor of Medicine, Surgery ana Midwifery. Six of these graduate* were Russians, two were English women Mias Morgan, in 1870, < ana Miss Atkinjjj in 1872,) one was a Scotch woman, ona an American, one a Swiss, and tlie remaining two Were Germans. The Americii, a young lady from Boston, passed lith Eeat applause, and her public dfspuhMon fore receiving her degree on the 22$ of June, 1871, created much admirat§n. After a short but very 1 promising practice, she lost her life by shipwreck m tlieAx--1 antic. In 1872, when Zurich had hrafcd the worst of tbe storm of ridicule tod anger, the Utfivereifcyof Gottingen fbfid courage to stand at her side, and thefigt female academical student in the Net||rlands passed a successful examination physics and mathematics. Thetwolatlt, a Russian from Jaroslaw and Fraufin Franziska Tiburtius, from the Islant&f Rugen, in the Baltic, have just maintained their thesis and been admitted to.fc digntty and righto of the doctor’s degi. The thirteen ladies who have remfjid medical degrees have exhibited an jfc. doubted vocation for the profession. • *&> extraordinary pressure of female studwts with wldoh Zurich was threatened at j|o beginning of the movement has now sbsided, ana is not likely to recur.

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