| Show WOMAN IS IN MEDICINE THE unreasonable prel prejudices which once prevailed against 19 female doctors are tast last passing away with other obstacles to womans comans progress and usefulness utah can boast of several lady physicians whose skill and peculiar fitness for attending on their own sex and on children when buffering suffering from allme slime ailments ants peculiar to them cannot be denied most of these ladles ladies settle in this city and perhaps all find plenty of practice however there are portions of the territory outside of the capital where able lady doctors and nurses are greatly needed and if it would not be considered impertinent on our hartwe part we would suggest that pome some of them could find a more profitable and useful field both as active practitioners titio ners and teachers of others in country towns where medical skill is at a premium we notice the following in progress of 0 march a paper published ab in the city of Bro brotherly theny thany love which shows that the move mentin menkin favor of woman doctors Is ii advancing lithe the graduating ceremonies of the medical college at association so clation hall thursday march it being the occasion of the thirty first annual commence commencement men t were attended by a large assembly of ladies and gentlemen there were 35 graduates of whom 16 wrye wrea from renney penney pennsylvania ivania in the grade bradu sting eims cubs vermont michigan illinois oregon missouri utah new jersey thode rhode islan island new york district of columbia and baeb palestine tine had machone each one representative connected with the college Is the womans woman chos sros hospital and on wednesday evening the it held heid its first semian semi bemi an nual commencement of the training school for nurses diplo rna were num nul who had completed the two beare yearb years coul course of training of these nurses were three from philadelphia three from other parts ol of the state and one each from cincinnati cin eln nati uati new now york and Illino illinoia Illi nod noi ig A notable incident of the college com corm men cement waw was that P a lady of wealth and high social and ancestral position and eminent for lon her piety and phil philanthropy anthro py should have chosen to take her degree with the students she matriculated in 1853 was one of the original in har corp corpora orators torb tora of theW omans hospital in 1860 her daughter hns has been for some time past a student in the hos bos pital however opinions may differ as to woman doctors there is abundant evidence that they are very much in earnest the womans comans Hog hob hospital pital is a noble institution and its instruction of nurses not only fits women for duties for which they are specially suited but accomplishes accomplish ea a great public servias ser the lady to whom I 1 have referred has bad long practical experience exper esper lenco lence in the profession which she ehe has now formally adopted and has endeared herself to thousands by her constant care for other others and sand the thorough ness which characterizes he her nature the lady here specially referred to I 1 is the wife of general thomas ii I 1 kane kanc well and favorably known to the people of utah as a gentleman not afraid to stand up in the faeo face of popular furuto speak in defence of a people unjustly blamed and inhumanly find the annexed in the eublio public ledger of march under the hend head of A distinguished graduate among the ladles who will graduate from the womans comans medi cai cal college today to day will be sKane Mr Mra Kane the wife of general kane and for years the lady bountiful of her vi neighborhood in mckane county mrs mn rane has for years been interested te in the tho study of medicine and with her practical knowledge was accustomed to be ba frequently called in as adviser in sickness in hi and around the then new settlement of kane she now receives the diploma which gives her formally the title she has earned both in the classroom class cims room and the ser Eer service bervice dlce dice we congratulate the bladyon lady on her graduation and end think she has done wisely her diploma will be the acknowledged evidence of that fit nees for the position she has chosen to occupy which has haa been demonstrated in her kind administration but is now placed beyond cavil N no 0 person male or female ought to bc permitted to engage in the responsible sible calling of a physician without tome come recognized proof of capability for the position we need more woman doctors and nurses in utah but want them all to bo be deafly resl resi jy qualified practitioners not mere tyros or feminine oar lady physicians in this city ciry have duly graduated and have the documentary evidence of their colle collegiate glate studies and training and they are doing an excellent work we fully agree with the sentiment thus thua expressed by prof parish at the ceremonies above referred to away said he with the fallacious fall reasoning that woman may with propriety devote her capabilities to the study of the lily illy or the rose the spider or the beetle but cannot study man the noblest work work of god |
