A Woman Doctor. . . .no way

Page  2 of Rural Republican, published in Lawrenceville, Illinois on Friday, July 12th, 1878

Miss Bradley MD who has just died in Philadelphia at the age of 40, made numerous efforts to secure admission to a medical college twenty years ago but all in vain.  At last, she cut her hair short and dressed in masculine attire, and in the disguise went through a course in Philadelphia, graduating with high honors, and surprising the college authorities when a few days later, attired in garments proper to her sex, she called upon them, showed her diploma and proving her identity, demanded leave to practice.   They had to accord it.

(Good Heavens. What were the women of Lawrence County to think when they read this article in the Rural Republican in 1878? They might get ideas that they too could be a doctor?)