Show WOMEN DOCTORS NOT NEW in the eighteenth century there wa wai a lady student at hospital in florence women as doctors ill IB not a paris contemporary obi elves a procla ct ot of modern femin fernin isme it seems that in the eighteenth century there was mas a lad ad student at ri florence orence she he came from malta under the patronage of the knight of the milta malta the ad of 0 tile maheur Ia eur hospital vas somewhat embarrassed with mith bis big new pupil but lie he found a means out of the difficult 3 the chief of the order of 0 this the knights 0 of malta in introducing his lad to the professors of the florence school of medicine wrote it seems seema to me that the matter could be arranged without any great inconvenience it if the boung lady lad v ere era boarded during the period she via was 3 fori stud ing at your medical school with mith the nuns in a neighboring convent for which we would pay crowns crowni a week in regard to her instruction she should assist in operations dt at the hospital notably those per formed by professor Idan nord lie he should also gle ghe her some private leg lea sons at the convent for it appears to me that she should not be present in classes with ith young oung men the council of the hospital being well disposed to the knights adopted the suggestion more than a century elapsed before another lady was vas en rolled in th schools of florence she was mas a russian and was mas admitted to the schools of santa marla maria nuova luova |