des Deux Mondes" for August, 1872,
contains an article called "Les Femmes a l'Universitie de
Zurich," which speaks very favorably of the success of the women
in that place. The first to take a degree as doctor of medicine
was a young Russian lady, in 1867. Between 1867 and 1872 five
others had taken this degree, and among them Miss Dimock is
mentioned. From the medical school at Zurich, she went to that at
Vienna; and of her appearance there we have this record: A
distinguished German physician remarked to a friend of mine
residing in Germany that he had always been opposed to women as
physicians--but that he had met a young American lady studying at
Vienna, whose intelligence, modesty and devotion to her work was
such as almost to convince him that he was wrong. A comparison of
dates shows that this American student must have been Dr. Dimock.

On her return to the United States Dr. Dimock became resident
physician at "The Hospital for Women and Children," on Codman
Avenue, in Boston. Both the students of medicine and the patients
became devotedly attached to her; they were fascinated by this
remarkable union of tenderness, firmness and skill. The secret
was in part told by what she said in one of her lectures in the
training-school for nurses connected with the woman's hospital:
"I wish you, of all my instructions, especially to remember this.
Where you go to nurse a patient, imagine that it is your own
sister before you in that bed; and treat her as you would wish
your own sister to be treated." While at this hospital, she was
also able to carry out a principle in which she firmly believed,
namely--that in a hospital the rights of every patient, poor and
rich, should be sacredly regarded, and never be postponed even to
the supposed interests of medical students. No student was
allowed to be present at any operation, except so far as the
comfort and safety of her patients rendered the student's
presence desirable. Her interest in the woman's hospital was
very great. She was in the habit, at the beginning of each year,
of writing and sealing up her wishes for the coming year. Since
her death, her mother has opened the envelope of January 1, 1875,
and found it to contain a prayer for a blessing on "my dear
hospital."

And now this young,