Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — Female Physicians in London. [ARTICLE]

Female Physicians in London.

Wk are glad to be able to announce that the Senate of the University of London has, by a decisive majority, resolved to admit women to the higher medical degrees. Since the last time the Senate debated this question considerable pragmas seems to have been made in overcoming prejudices and slaying those social ana other specters which seem always to haunt the minds of many good men when they would legislate for women. At the-' last meeting of the' Senate, some three yean ago, if we remember rightly, the Chancellor gave bis casting vote against a measure which the day before yenterday he advocated, and which was carried by his influence, and that by a majority of eight of the Senators. The Senate has done well in accepting recognized facto. By the act of last year women can be admitted to the study and practice of medicine, and the Senate may' therefore be congratulated on having done its best to give good effect to our legislation. Now that the University of London haa thrown open its medical degrees to the fair sex, we trust that no time will be lost in getting its charter so altered or enlarged as to enable all woman able and ankious to contest to compete with men for such other honors and degrees as the University has it in its power to bestow.—Zaufen Examiner.