CHAPTER XIV QUESTIONINGS 172 Gets to know women doctors in Boston—Assists with dispensing in New England Hospital for Women— Gradual initiation into hospital work—Heart- searchings as to her own future—Law?—The Ministry?—Religious difficulties—Medicine? CHAPTER XV PIONEER WORK IN AMERICA 188 Writes “A Visit”—Published by Macmillan—Good reviews—Begins study of medicine—Application to Harvard—Letters from Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. Brown-Séquard—Obtains clinical teaching in Massachusetts General Hospital—Goes to New York—Obtains private teaching in anatomy—Summing up of three years in America. CHAPTER XVI GOING HOME 202 Visit of Dr. Sewall to England—Rapprochement between S. J.-B. and her father—Dr. Elizabeth and Dr. Emily Blackwell found Medical College for Women in New York—S. J.-B. starts house- keeping and medical study there—Illness of her father—Return to England. _PART II_ CHAPTER I DRIFTING 213 Life at Brighton—Perplexities as to future education. CHAPTER II AT THE GATES OF THE CITADEL 218 Correspondence with Mrs. Butler, Professor Sidgwick and others as to possibility of University training—Goes to Edinburgh—Canvasses professors. CHAPTER III SUCCESS? 232 Support of _Scotsman_—Formal application to Dean of Medical Faculty—Consent (_a_) of Medical Faculty, (_b_) of Senatus, to receive S. J.-B. as a student. CHAPTER IV A CHECK 242 S. J.-B.’s run of popularity—Difficulties of situation—Decision of Senatus vetoed by University Court. CHAPTER V OPENING OF EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY TO WOMEN 253 S. J.-B. reinforced by Mrs. Thorne and Miss Pechey—Dr. King Chambers tries—and fails—to get women admitted to St. Mary’s Hospital—Edinburgh University Court agrees to admit women to separate classes.