[102]. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, May 25, 1871.
[103]. The matter had apparently first been brought forward in 1868, at a meeting held at Washington, D. C., by a resolution offered by Dr. Bowditch of Boston.—N. Y. Med. Record, 1868.
[104]. New York Medical Record, June 10, 1876.
[105]. “History of Proceedings to procure the Recognition of Women Physicians by the Medical Profession of the State.” By Dr. Hiram Corson. Philadelphia, 1888.
[106]. “It must be acknowledged that the strictly regular instruction imparted in the principal medical schools for women has excited respect, and greatly tended to overcome former prejudices. The admission of women is now a fixed fact.”—Phil. Med. Times, 1883.
[107]. This society no longer exists; but it can hardly be said to have died from the admission of women, as it never had but three female members.
[108]. Mary Putnam, who was in fact the first woman to be admitted to the Paris School, though Miss Garrett of London was the first to graduate from it. The paper read before the New York Society was on Septicæmia, and seems to have been the first read by a woman physician in the United States, before a medical society.
[109]. Miss Putnam’s graduating thesis had moreover secured a bronze medal, the second prize awarded.
[110]. Drs. Cushier, McNutt, Withington, Dixon Jones.
[111]. Drs. Peckham, Fiske-Bryson.