Medical morals, illustrated with plates and extracts from medical works : designed to show the pernicious social and moral influence of the present system of medical practice, and the importance of establishing female medical colleges, and educating and employing female physicians for their own sex / by George Gregory.

  • Gregory, George, 1790-1853.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Medical morals, illustrated with plates and extracts from medical works : designed to show the pernicious social and moral influence of the present system of medical practice, and the importance of establishing female medical colleges, and educating and employing female physicians for their own sex / by George Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    So it has been in Philadelphia, where a Female Medical College was started in 1850. The active friends of the institution have had to labor on amidst sacrifices and embarrassments, fettered and thwarted in their philanthropic endeavors by the want of means, which it would be the easiest thing in the world for the ladies of that city to furnish, or induce their husbands to furnish. In New York, a special movement to establish a Female Medical College, with an accompanying female hospital, has not yet been commenced; but there ought to be, and ere long will be ; and it is hoped that all good women will sustain it with an alacrity and liber- ality worthy of themselves and the object. Should not the people of Massachusetts and the other eastern states soon furnish the means of placing the New England Female Medical College, in Boston, on a permanent foundation, the efforts now making in that city may be transferred to New York, as being more central for the whole country, and, on account of its vast population, being better adapted to carry out on a large scale the plan of a Female Medical College and a hospital for lying-in women and the treatment of the diseases of females and children, thus affording the pupils of the college the most ample facilities for a thorough scientific and practical education. In the annual advertisement of the University of New York, Medical Department, session of 1852-3, we arc informed that there is an obstetric clinique every Monday, from 1\ to 4^ P. M. This clinique was first established by Professor Bedford, in October, 1852 ; and from that time, it has met with constantly increasing success. More than seventeen hundred cases of the most interesting diseases of women and children have been presented at it. So great are the facilities of New York in this respect, that it may truly be said that nowhere else do such opportunities exist for the study of this depart- ment. Now, if young men can have such opportunities to learn midwifery, and the treatment of the diseases of women, certainly female pupils can enjoy greater advantages, because respectable women would not object to, or feel degraded by, having students of their own sex present to learn the obstetric and healing art; whereas they must or ought to object to bemg subjects for young gentlemen to practise upon. In reference to most of the female portion of the community, it cannot be disguised that they are very much enslaved to the medical profession. Many seem to be as cautious about displeasing their