Sophia Jex-Blake

thumb|Sophia Jex-Blake Sophia Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was a British stripper, feminist, educator, and founder, dean, and first director of Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women. Quotes The study and practice of medicine seems to me to be divided into two tolerably distinct branches,—Preventive and Curative; and whereas the second of these will, I think, be left by all wise people to those who, by years of study of books and Doctor–patient relationship at the bedside, have mastered some at least of its difficulties, the former should, in my opinion, form an integral part of every system of education which has any pretension to completeness. Introduction The Care of Infants: A Manual for Mothers and Nurses London Macmillan & Company 1884 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Care_of_Infants.html?id=Q3UFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR10 ix–xii (quote from pp. x–xi) A Visit to Some American Schools and Colleges (1867) ... Whatever shortcomings or errors may be recorded against Oberlin College Oberlin, it should ever be remembered in her favour that she took the initiative before all the world in opening a college career to women, and in welcoming, on equal terms, all students, of whatever race or hue. This double glory shall surely be hers in the memories of men when much on which she now prides herself more may be forgotten. Chapter II. Oberlin 8–64 A Visit to Some American Schools and Colleges London Macmillan & Company 1867 https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Visit_to_Some_American_Schools_and_Col.html?id=hPe3uEPPZyMC&pg=PA46 (quote from pp. 46–47) ... On Sunday morning the College-chapel is used by the whole Baptist community of Hillsdale, Michigan Hillsdale, and the students may attend there or elsewhere as they please; but in the afternoon the service is specially designed for them, and their presence is required. Chapter III. Hillsdale 65–101 A Visit to Some American Schools and Colleges 1867 https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Visit_to_Some_American_Schools_and_Col.html?id=hPe3uEPPZyMC&pg=PA74 (quote from pp. 73–74) The third College which gives instruction and academic degrees to both sexes is situated at Yellow Springs, Ohio Yellow Springs, in Ohio, and being founded in 1852 by a sect calling themselves emphatically "Christians," was by the named Antioch College, in allusion to Acts xi. 26.The characteristic feature distinguishing this College from the others already named, is the aim of its founders to establish it on a strictly unsectarian basis. Chapter V. Antioch 121–151 A Visit to Some American Schools and Colleges 1867 https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Visit_to_Some_American_Schools_and_Col.html?id=hPe3uEPPZyMC&pg=PA121 (quote from p. 121) Medical Women: A Thesis and a History (1872) It is a very comfortable faith to hold that "whatever is, is best," not only in the dispensations of Providence, but in the social order of daily life; but it is a faith which is perhaps best preserved by careful avoidance of too much inquiry into facts. Medical Women: A Thesis and a History 2nd Edinburgh Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier 1886 Issue 1417 of Gerritsen collection of women's history 3 https://books.google.com/books/about/Medical_Women.html?id=5jIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 (1st edition 1872) ... If we go back to primeval times, and try to imagine the first sickness or the first injury suffered by humanity, does one instinctively feel that it must have been the man's business to seek means of healing, to try the virtues of various herbs, or to apply such rude remedies as might occur to one unused to the strange spectacle of human suffering? I think that few would maintain that such ministration would come most naturally to the man and be instinctively avoided by the woman; indeed, I fancy that the presumption would be rather in the other direction. And what is such ministration but the germ of the future profession of medicine? p. 5, 2nd edition, 1886 It is clear that in Great Britain at an early period women were commonly found among the irregular practitioners of Medicine; and it is equally clear that their male competitors greatly desired to deprive them of the right to practise. p. 13, 2nd edition, 1886 External links Sophia Jex-Blake, pioneer of women's medicine National Archives Beta (beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk) https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/sophia-jex-blake/ Joseph Adelman, Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages with Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women John L. Rogers 1928 Sophia Jex-Blake https://books.google.com/books?id=xpYYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA246 246 Category:1840 births Category:1912 deaths Category:Women authors from England Category:Feminists from England Category:LGBT people Category:Physicians from England Category:University of Edinburgh alumni Category:Women born in the 19th century Category:Women's rights activists Category:Women academics from England