ESSAYS IN MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY ESSAYS IN MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY BY ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, M.D. _VOLUME II._ LONDON ERNEST BELL, YORK STREET COVENT GARDEN 1902 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. ESSAY PAGE I. THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN THE PROFESSION OF MEDICINE 1 II. ERRONEOUS METHOD IN MEDICAL EDUCATION 33 III. WHY HYGIENIC CONGRESSES FAIL 47 APPENDIX 85 IV. SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN BIOLOGY 87 V. CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM 151 VI. ON THE DECAY OF MUNICIPAL REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT 173 VII. ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE OPENING OF THE WOMEN’S MEDICAL COLLEGE, NEW YORK 197 VIII. THE RELIGION OF HEALTH 211 THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN THE PROFESSION OF MEDICINE _Address given at the Opening of the Winter Session of the London School of Medicine for Women, October, 1889_ THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN THE PROFESSION OF MEDICINE In the short time that we meet together to-day I will ask you to let me dwell upon the way in which the most beneficial influence of women in the medical profession may be exercised. I wish also to point out certain dangers, as well as advantages, with which medical study is now surrounded.