Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by John Woolf Jordan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 Dr. Green was a champion of education for women as well as men, and was aggressive in the improvement of opportunities for their higher education. The idea that sex was a subject for discussion in the case of education was -to him a self-evident absurdity, and he instructed many classes of girls ih various branches of natural sciences. He was the advocate of more study for women in the line of medical instruction, and of association with their brethren of the fraternity. In different medical organizations. He cham pioned the admission of women students into the clinics of the hospitals of Philadelphia and in ac tive membership relation with the County Medi cal Society, the State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He'felt that 'his work in this direction, however, was not com plete even when his efforts in these fields were crowned with success. His study of the condi tions of the state insane hospitals led him to the firm belief that it was an absolute wrong to the women patients to have the wards in which they were confined presided over by men.' He felt that women physicians should be placed in charge, and introduced the subject to the state legislature. Again and again he met defeat in his efforts to have a bill presenting his ideas passed by the general assembly, and he never gave over his effort until it was attended by successful comple tion. He held a most chivalric feeling for women, and possessed for them the greatest sympathy, and this quality in his nature made his presence in the sick room like a ray of sunshine. His labors as a physician also brought to him an intimate knowledge of the horrors of the liquor habit such as few men possess, and he put forth every effort in his power to suppress intemperance, and to arouse public sentiment concerning the'evils of' intoxicants. He was a leader in the temperance movements in his county, and long served as the president of the organized temperance movement. There. 'dr. Green's fight was against alcohol as a beverage just as his fight against opium was against its abuse. He recognized both drugsas God-given, and prescribed them when he thought the occasion demanded them. He was thoroughly consistent in his beliefs and in his practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.