(1.) Women shall be admitted to the study of medicine in the
University; (2.) The instruction of women for the profession of
medicine shall be conducted in separate classes, confined entirely
to women; (3.) The Professors of the Faculty of Medicine shall,
for this purpose, be permitted to have separate classes for women;
(4.) Women, not intending to study medicine professionally, may be
admitted to such of these classes, or to such part of the course of
instruction given in such classes, as the University Court may from
time to time think fit and approve; (5.) The fee for the full course
of instruction in such classes shall be four guineas; but in the event
of the number of students proposing to attend any such class being too
small to provide a reasonable remuneration at that rate, it shall be
in the power of the professor to make arrangements for a higher fee,
subject to the usual sanction of the University Court; (6.) All women
attending such classes shall be subject to all the regulations now or
at any future time in force in the University as to the matriculation
of students, their attendance on classes, Examination, or otherwise;
(7.) The above regulations shall take effect as from the commencement
of session 1869–70.[78]
In accordance with, the above resolutions, four other ladies and myself
were, in October 1869, admitted provisionally to the usual preliminary
examination in Arts, prescribed for medical students entering the
University. Having duly passed, and received certificates to that
effect from the Dean of the Medical Faculty, we, after the issue of
the regulations above cited, all matriculated in the ordinary manner
at the office of the Secretary of the University. We paid the usual
fee, inscribed our names in the University album, with the usual
particulars, including the Faculty in which we proposed to study, and
received the ordinary matriculation tickets, which bore our names, and
declared us to be “_Cives Academiæ Edinensis_.” We were at the same
time registered in due course as students of medicine, by the Registrar
of the Branch Council for Scotland, in the Government register kept by
order of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of
the United Kingdom, such registration being obligatory on all medical
students, and affording the sole legal record of the date at which they
have commenced their studies.
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