MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

EDITED BY

L. A. DUGAS, M. D.,

PROFESSOR OF SURGERY IN THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA.

Female Medical Education. By JNO. STAINBACK WILSON, M. D., of Airmount, Clarke county, Alabama.

In appearing as the advocate of Female Medical Education, we feel conscious that we may subject ourselves to the reproaches and animadversions of some worthy members of our profession. But believing as we do, that the education of females in certain branches of Medicine, is one of the greatest wants of our age and country; and entertaining the idea also that a measure fraught with such important consequences to society, has been too little considered or too hastily condemned by physicians, we are perfectly willing to incur the censures of the selfish and unreflecting, while we are cheered by the hope of eliciting the attention and co-operation of those who consider their own private interests as secondary to the advancement of the noble science of Medicine, and the promotion of the gen eral good of mankind. Now, whether we are entitled to the honor of being considered one of the latter class or not, we can say in all truth and sincerity that we do most ardently desire the elevation of our profession, and the general diffusion of its benefits among all classes. As one of the means for the accomplishment of the former end-the elevation of the profession