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obvious rights have been asserted than to the presence of a few notable figures who have demonstrated the capacity of women for the highest intellectual development and who have compelled recognition by the character of the work accomplished in the science and art of medicine; that the work which they are doing in chemistry, histology, pathology, embryology, bacteriology, neurology and anatomy is everywhere attracting attention."

Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to take a degree in medicine, has just died. She lived to see 7399 women physicians and surgeons in America at the present time following in the trail she blazed.

Literati- rh.

Jacobi, Mary Putnam — "Women in Medicine" in "Woman's Work in America," Chadwick, James R., "International Review," October, 1879.

Blackwell, Elizabeth — "Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women," 1895.

Bodley, Rachel — "The College Story," commencement address, 1881, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Marshall, Clara— The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1894. Personal information from Dr. Emily Blackwell.

Addresses — "In Memoriam Dr., Mary Putnam Jacobi," New York Academy of Medicine, January 4, 1907.

Wollstein, Martha — "The History of Women in Medicine," "The Woman's Medical Journal," April, 190S.

Alfreda B. Withington.

Medical Jurisprudence.

As I write, there lies before me an old and battered volume, the grain of whose fine tree calf is well-nigh undiscernible on account of much use and age. The work has plainly belonged to a rat lier large num- ber of persons. It bears the stamp and labels of five or six dealers in second-hand books, as well as an equal number of hand-written inscrip- tions One of these latter relates that the volume was presented to Dr. by his patient, the daughter of another physi- cian. Another inscription says, "Oh how I wish I had my eyes to read this book, but my eyes an' old." The volume has also belonged to a medical student. Evidently, a much owned and much used book. The outside title reads, "Rush's Lectures." The title-page says, "Sixteen Introductory Lectures, to Courses of Lectures," etc., "by Benjamin Rush, M. D." The date at the foot of the page is lsi l. In the table of