Women Physicians: Medical Women

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Women Physicians: Medical Women
By Sophia Jex-Blake


http://xdl.drexelmed.edu/viewer.php?object_id=2673&t=womanmd


Origin: Medical Women, an article in an unknown publication. Published January 1, 1886.


Purpose: The purpose of this article was to inform a group of people that women were now able to attend colleges to become physicians. It listed a few colleges that were exceptions, but was a giant milestone as before this time, only men could go to college to work in the medical profession.


Limitation: The limitation of this source is that first of all, it does not list the publication/newspaper in which the article was published. This would have been an important piece of information in order to tell us as historians and readers who the audience was for this article. Another important piece of information would be a more accurate idea of whether or not this item of news was further publicized or made more well known to the general public. Without any additional information, we are unable to tell how "big of a deal" this really was.


Value: This is of significant value to a historian. It provides specific information for exactly what colleges were now accepting and not accepting women into their medical programs. This was a huge step in medicine for the women of the world, making this article evidence of a meaningful and exciting milestone in the progress of this career for women.