Philadelphia the college has quietly pursued its work, through
the past eighteen years, with steadily increasing success,
notwithstanding the unfriendly attitude of the ordinary pro-
fessional organizations, and has sent forth a goodly number
of skilful physicians. Its corporators assert that *Mts cur-
riculum of study and requirements for graduation are in all
respects as high as those of the best medical schools in this
country'* and present a catalogue of thirty-eight regular stu-
dents for the year 1867. At the college in New York,
chartered in 1863, one hundred intelligent ladies have
already received instruction from a competent corps of pro-
fessors. Many of these have not designed to practise as
phj'sicians ; but have availed themselves of this method for
obtaining knowledge invaluable to them in their own homes.
Twenty-nine have completed the course, and received the
legal diploma ; and there ai-e now thirty students in regular
attendance. The New York Infirmary also, now in its four-
teenth year, originated and still chiefly managed by Drs.
Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, has well earned an honorable
position and done noble service. It has furnished advice and
medicine gratuitously to more than seven thousand women and
children during the past year. These ladies have in view the
organization of a college, for which a considerable fund has
already been collected and a preparatory class formed. In
various other directions preliminary steps have been taken
toward the same end ; and there are estimated to be as manj'
as three hundred wopien, in full practice, scattered through
the land. These institutions are yet in their infancy, and
the opposition to their object has be^n such, on the part of
male members of the profession, that they have found difli-
culty in securing instructors of* the highest grade and
facilities for thorough clinical or anatomical study. This,
however, they are gradually overcoming, and, we doubt not,
will soon occupy a position, fully equal at least to that of
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EMINENT WOMEN OF THE AGE.