Medical women; a thesis and a history.

  • Sophia Jex-Blake
Date:
1886
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    NOTE MM, p. 202. Medical Act {Qualifications) Act. [39 & 40 Victoria, Ch. 41.] AX ACT to remove restrictions on the granting of Qualifications for Registra- tion under the Medical Act on the ground of Sex. [11th AUGUST 1876.] Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same : 1. The powers of every body entitled under the Medical Act to grant qualifications for regis- tration shall extend to the granting of any qualification for registration granted by such body to all persons without distinction of sex : Provided always that nothing herein contained shall render compulsory the exercise of such powers, and that no person who but for this Act would not have been entitled to be registered shall, by reason of such registration, be entitled to take any part in the government, management, or proceedings of the universities or corporations mentioned in the said Medical Act. 2. This Act shall be taken to be incorporated with the Medical Act, as amended by the Act of the twenty-second year of Her Majesty, chapter twenty-one. and the Medical Act as so amended, and any other Act amending the Medical Act shall be construed and have effect accordingly. NOTE XX, pp. 204, 211, 224. Registered Medical AYomex. The following is a complete list of the women (fifty in number) who have, up to January 1st, 1886, taken medical diplomas entitling them to enter their names on the British Register of duly qualified medical practitioners. The names are arranged in the order, and with the year, of registration. All except those marked * hold one or more diplomas from the Irish College of Physicians, with or without a University degree in addition. 1858. *Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (M.D. Geneva, New York), Rock House, Hastings. 1S66. *Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (M.D. Paris; L.S.A.), 4 Upper Berkeley Street, London,W. IS77. Dr. Eliza Walker Dunbar (M.D. Zurich), 4 Buckingham Villas, Clifton, Bristol. Dr. Frances Hoggan (M.D. Zurich), 7 Trevor Terrace, London, S.W. Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake (M.D. Bern), Bruntsfield Lodge, Edinburgh. Dr. Louisa Atkins (M.D. Zurich), 37 Gloucester Place, London, W. Dr. Edith Pechey (M.D. Bern), Sen. Med. Off., Cama Hospital, Bombav, India. 1S7S. Dr. Annie Reay Barker (M.D. Paris), The Mount, Aldershot. Dr. Ann Clark (M.D. Bern), 39 Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. Dr. Agnes M'Laren (M.D. Montpellier), 26 York Place, Edinburgh. Dr. Anna Dahms (M.D. Paris), 17 St. Ann's Square, and G.P.O., Manchester. 1879. Miss Jane E. Waterston, Medical Missionary, Cape Town, Africa. Dr. Alice Ker (M.D. Bern), 6 Eld on Place. Leeds. Dr. Eliza F. M'Donogh Frikart(M.D. Zurich), Zofingen, Aargau, Switzerland. 1SS0. Dr. Marv Marshall (M.D. Paris), 16 Stanley Gardens, London. W. Dr. Matilda Chaplin Ayrton (M.D. Paris). Died July 19th, ^S3. Mrs. Foggo, c/o Messrs. Grindlay, 55 Parliament Street, London, S.W. Mrs. Grant, 1 Haverland Villas, Acton. Miss Alice Vickery, 333 Albany Road, London, S.E. Miss Fanny Butle'r, Medical Missionary, Bhagulpur, India. Mrs. Rushbrook, 25 Upper Phillimore Place, London, W. 1881. Miss Edith Shove (M.B. Lond., 1SS2), Med. Officer (Female Staff), G.P.O. London. Mrs. Mears, 47 Front Street, Tynemouth. Miss Alice Marston, Medical Missionary, Lucknow, India. Dr. Hope Adams Walther (M.D. Bern), Neue Mainzer Strasse, Frankl'ort-on-Main. Mrs. De la Cherois. 28 Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale, London W.