faculty of the university of Halle was one of the first to admit women to the study of medicine, and the innovation may be regarded as a complete failure. ~Into these halls of earnest endeavor cynicism has entered with the women~, and scenes frequently occur that are equally obnoxious to instructors, students and patients. ~Here the emancipation of woman becomes a calamity, conflicting with morality, and should be checked.~ Colleagues, who would dare, in the face of these facts, to oppose our just demands? ~We demand the exclusion of women from clinical instruction~, because experience has taught us that a common clinical instruction of male and female students is incompatible with a thoroughgoing study of medicine, as well as ~with the principles of decency and morality~. This question taken up by us is no longer a local one. Already it has been stated in government circles, that women are to be definitely admitted to the study of medicine. You all now are equally interested in our cause, and therefore we appeal to you: Express your opinion on this question and join with us in a common protest!” This protest is a striking proof of the narrow-mindedness of the clinical students and also of their envy, for petty envy is at the bottom of most of their moral considerations. How can an institution that has existed for years in other civilized countries, without injuring the morals and the sense of decency of male and female students, be considered a peril to Germany? The German students are not famed for their morality and ought to refrain from a moral outburst that seems like a jest.[167] If it is not incompatible with decency and morality for female nurses to be present and to render assistance to the physicians during all kinds of operations upon male and female patients, if it is decent and proper for dozens of young men to surround, for the purpose of study, the bed of a woman in the throes of child-birth, and to witness operations upon female patients, then it is ridiculous to seek to exclude the female students.