was successfully accomplished owing to the kind help of many
people, both within and without the profession, but no clinical
teaching could be obtained, as all the big London hospitals were
closed to women students. Finally, however, arrangements were made
with the Royal Free Hospital in Gray's Inn Road. It had no men's
medical school attached to it, and the admission of women to
the hospital was due to the kind intervention of the Rt. Hon. J.
Stansfeld, M.P., who met the Chairman of the hospital, Mr James
Hopgood, while away on a holiday, and induced him to persuade the
hospital authorities to give the dangerous experiment a trial. So
seriously was it regarded, that the women students had to guarantee an
indemnity to the hospital of 300 guineas annually in addition to their
fees, as it was felt that the general support might decrease by,
at least, this amount when the public became aware that there were
medical women studying at the hospital! This was soon found not to
be the case, and the yearly indemnity was generously remitted by the
hospital authorities, the students simply paying the usual fees for
instruction. In connection with this subject, it may be of interest
to note that to-day the presence of medical women at the hospital is
evidently found by the authorities to be an important means of
gaining the sympathy of the general public, for appeals for funds may
frequently be seen in London omnibuses stating, as the ground for
an appeal, the fact that this is the only general hospital in London
where women medical students are trained.

The medical school which began in a small Georgian house has now a
fine block of buildings with all modern appliances, and the hospital
is, at the time that this book goes to press, undergoing extensive
alterations and additions, including enlargement of the students'
quarters.

The success of this pioneer work has been sufficiently amazing, but
it is most important that every one should realise that the fight is
still going on. Not a day passes but somebody tries to get medical
women to work either for less pay or under less honourable conditions
than those required by their medical brethren, and one of the most
trying parts of work in this profession at the present time is the
constant alertness required both for detecting and defeating these
attempts. That they should be made is not surprising, when we remember
the lower market value attached to women's work in almost every o