Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - Georgia Regents University

SOUTHERNMEDICAL AND SURGICALJOURNAL.Vol. 10.] NEW SERIES.—JANUARY, 1854. [No. I,ORIGINAL AND ECLECTIC.ARTICLE I.Female Medical Education. By Jno. ^taixback Wilson,M. D., of Airmourit, Clarke county, Alabama.In appearing as the advocate of Female Medical Education,we feel conscious that we may subject ourselves to the reproachesand animadversions of some worthy members of ourprofession. But believing as we do, that the education offemales in certain branches of Medicine, is one of the greatestwants of our age and country ; and entertaining the idea alsothat a measure fraught with such important consequences tosociety, has been too little considered or too hastily condemnedby physicians, we are perfectly willing to incur the censures oftheselfish and unreflecting, while we are cheered by the hopeof eliciting the attention and co-operation of those who considertheir own private interests as secondary to the advancementof the noble science of Medicine, and the promotion of the generalgood of mankind. Now, whether we are entitled to thehonor of being considered one of the latter class or not, we cansay in all truth and sincerity that we do most ardently desirethe elevation of our profession, and the general diffusion of itsbenefits among all classes. As one of the means for the accomplishmentof the former end—theX. S. VOL. X. NO. I. 1elevation of the professioi