We are glad to see that the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
has not only strongly expressed his wish to see qualified medical women practising in India, but has discouraged peremptorily the idea of requiring from them any less thorough medical cul- ture than is required from their male colleagues. There is no quarter of the world where highly qualified medical women might do more good than in India, and it is encouraging to find that Brehm° opinion is as favourable to the experiment as -cultivated European opinion itself. The paper published at -Calcutta called Brahmo Public Opinion contained on July 12th 411 article heartily favourable to the admission of females to the Medical College. The efforts which are being made in this country to educate native women as physicians, and to send them out with a guaranteed income for a certain term of years, will evidently meet with no obstruction in India. Educated female physicians in adequate numbers would do more to leaven Indian households with sound medical, sanitary, and moral prin. -ciples, than all the medical men whom we could send to India, who never really reach the interior of a Hindoo household at all.
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