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Show WOMEN DOCTORS NOT NEW Knight of Malt Sent Ljdy to Florence Flor-ence Medical School In Eighteenth Century. Women a ilo itu Nil- i nt. a I'aria contemporary observes. : pioduct of niod' tn "fi'iiiiiiNme " It Ki'i-iim that In the cluli'eenth century tln-n- was a lady prudent iit Florence Sl" c.itne Iroin Malci under the pal i oiu.m- of the Knight nf Ma'lii The Hitiultils-trator Hitiultils-trator of the M inr hospital wan somcw hat i ih! :i i nif ( (I with lilh new pupil hut he touinl a menus nut of the (lillleulty The chief of the OhI.t of the Knights of Malta In In; rodiirli'g tils lady protege to the profeM-ois of the Floretii-e School of Medicine wrote-"It wrote-"It i-erinM to mo that the mailer could lie arranged without any great ineon velilelice If th'- yotiliK lady with hoariled during the period li- wa MudytiiK at your medical school wnh the nuns In a neighboring convent, lor which we would pay five crown a week In regard to her Instruction, she nhould assist in operations at lie-women's lie-women's hocpltul. notably thon performed per-formed hy 1'iolessor Mannoiil He hlioiild also Klve her some private les-nons les-nons lit the convent, for It apan to me that he h.mld not he present In eliisscs with young men." The council of the hospital, helm well disponed to the Knights, adopted the suggestion. More than a century elaphed hefore another lady wan en-roiled en-roiled In the schools of Florence. She was a Itusslan and was admitted to the schools of Santa Marin Nuova London (ilohe |