11re also learn from the Scotsman that at a meeting
held on Tuesday last of the lecturers at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, a motion was brought forward to rescind the permission given last summer to the lecturers, who desired to admit women to their classes, and the permission was rescinded,—but it was understood that the prohibition should not extend to any women who were not "registered students of medicine." In other words, amateurs may attend the medical classes, but not women bent on making it their profession. This is indeed adding insult to injury. It is legislating that any woman may study medicine who has no inten- tion of applying her knowledge to practice,—a judicial sentence about equal in wisdom to that recorded by Cowper that,—
" Whenever the nose puts the spectacles on, By daylight or eandlelight,—oyos should be shut." Really, these Edinburgh medical men seem bent on its being clearly understood by the country both how oppressive and how ridiculous they are.
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