Frances S. Cooke, M. D., of the "Female Medical College," East Concord Street, Boston, Mrs. Jackson, Lucy Sewall, M. D., recently returned from Europe, and a half-score others of Boston, much deserve more than a passing notice, but our limited space will not permit. Also, Hannah E. Longshore, M. E. Zakezewska, of New York, Miss Jane E. Myers, M. D., Mrs. Mary F. Thomas, M. D. (Camden, Ind.), Miss Ann Preston, M. D., of Philadelphia, Mrs. Annie Bowen, of Chicago, and others, "too numerous to mention," who, in spite of the opposition from their own sex, from the profession, and the public in general, have gained a name and a competency through their professional efforts. "A woman's intellectual incapacity and her physical weakness will ever disqualify her for the duties of the medical profession," wrote Dr. ----, of Pennsylvania. Edward H. Dixon, M. D., of New York, in an article published in the "_Scalpel_" shows, by uncontroverted arguments and facts, that the male child, at birth, "in original organic strength," holds only an equal chance with the female; that "the chances of health for the two sexes at the outset are equal, and so continue till the period when they first attain the full use of their legs." Ask the mother of a family if the labor pains show any respect of sex. Does not the female show as strong lungs as the male in its _earliest_ disapprobation of this unceremonious world? How about the comparative strength exhibited in the demonstrations of each when the lacteal fluid is not forthcoming in proportion to the appetite? Let us consult Dr. Dixon further,--and charge it to the females! "We give the girl two years' start of the boy,--we shall see why as we proceed. Both have endured the torture of bandaging, pinning (pricking), and tight dressing; both have been rocked, jounced on the knee, papped, laudanumed, paregoricked, castor oiled, suffocated with blankets over the head, sweltered with cap and feather bed, roasted at a fire of anthracite, dosed according to the formula of some superannuated doctor or 'experienced nurse,' or both, for these people usually hunt in couples, and are very gracious to each other. We give the girl the start to make up for the benefit the boy has derived from chasing the cat, rolling on the floor, or sliding down the balustrade, and the torture _she_ had endured from her sampler, and being compelled to 'sit up straight, and not be _hoidenish_.'" [Illustration: "POH! YOU'RE A GIRL."] "Well, they are off to school. Observe how circumspectly our little miss must walk, chiding her brother for being 'too rude.' He, nothing daunted, (with a '_Poh! you're a girl_'), starts full tilt after an unlucky pig or a stray dog. If he tumbles into the mud and soils his clothes the result is soon visible in increase of lungs and ruddy cheeks."