Scalpel : the 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania . n-patients October i, the buildings are small, they have during the eight years ofhospital existence sheltered more than one thousand patients. Manyserious conditions have arisen for treatment, and last year threeCaesarean section operations were performed within seven months. The records of both hospital and outpractices show excellentresults, even when the cases must be conducted amid the most unfavorablesurroundings of poverty and dirt. Such experience is of incalculable value to young women who areab


Scalpel : the 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania . n-patients October i, the buildings are small, they have during the eight years ofhospital existence sheltered more than one thousand patients. Manyserious conditions have arisen for treatment, and last year threeCaesarean section operations were performed within seven months. The records of both hospital and outpractices show excellentresults, even when the cases must be conducted amid the most unfavorablesurroundings of poverty and dirt. Such experience is of incalculable value to young women who areabout to take up the practice of medicine. Obstetrics is a branch whichis particularly the province of women physicians, not only in the coun-tries of the Far East, where such cases can be attended only by women,but also in our own great cities, where midwives are conducting betweenforty and fifty per cent, of all confinements. No department calls forgreater skill and judgment in emergencies, and in no other must thephysician carry the double rcs])onsil)iIity for two ^ OiR Patiknts Harc;.\i\in(; ox South I-dcrth Street


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