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100 The idea of woman as a regular graduated practicing physician is growing more and more popular each year, and to-day the doors of quite a number of medical colleges are open to her which were closed thirty years ago against her. And why should she not enter, as well as her brother, and prepare herself for usefulness in life? The law of God has never excluded her, nor has the law of man the right to deny to her admission into this important field of labor. Indeed, she deserves recognition and should enjoy every right in the profession that is accorded to her brother.

Such a physician of character and ability as Susan S. McKinney, M. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y., will add dignity and refinement to the practice of medicine.

Graduating, as she did, at the head of her medical class in 1870, by the united choice of both professors and students, she has, from the beginning of her practice, taken a high stand in the profession and has enjoyed a large and lucrative practice in medicine and surgery among both white and colored citizens of Brooklyn, N. Y. She enjoys the distinction of being the sister of that highly respected and honored man. Rev. Henry Hyland Garnet, D. D., who bore a national reputation. She also enjoys the distinctive honor of being the first genuine colored, woman in the United States to enter the medical profession. She has been called upon to read papers of importance before both the State and County Homeopathic Medical Societies, of which she is a member. She also belongs to the College Alumni Association, and is attached to the Memorial Hospital Dispensary Staff.