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November 12th 1869 saw Edinburgh University first admit women to the study of medicine.
Sophia Jex-Blake and her friend Edith Pechy were the first to attend the prestigious medical school after much hard campaigning on Sophiaâs part. Jex-Blake describes the scene here as the two friends went to take their examsâŠâŠâ: âOn the afternoon of Friday 18th November 1870, we walked to the Surgeonâs Hall, where the anatomy examination was to be held. As soon as we reached the Surgeonâs Hall we saw a dense mob filling up the road⊠The crowd was sufficient to stop all the traffic for an hour. We walked up to the gates, which remained open until we came within a yard of them, when they were slammed in our faces by a number of young men.â.
A sympathetic student emerged from the hall; he opened the gate and ushered the women inside. They took their examination and passed with flying colours. Although both passed, university regulations only allowed medical degrees to be given to men. The British Medical Association therefore refused to register the women as doctors.
Jex-Blake took herself off to Ireland where she finally obtained her licence to practice from the Dublin College of Physicians. Sophia Jex-Blake then devoted her life to the cause of women in medicine - both improving the treatment of female patients and creating better opportunities for female medical education, eventually founding the revolutionary Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women.
Their strength and decency under pressure went on to inspire many others, right up to the present day. Although Jex-Blake and Petchey were the most famous and seem to get most of the plaudits, There were other women and they are collectively known as The Edinburgh Seven, the others were Mary Anderson, Emily Bovell, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans and Isabel Thorne.
Jex-Blake seems to have been the most successful of the seven, in June 1878 she opened a medical practice at 4 Manor Place; three months later she established a dispensary (an out-patient clinic) for impoverished women at 73 Grove Street, just round the corner from where I used to stay at Upper Grove Place. These ventures were highly successful but after the death of one of her assistants, she suffered from depression. She closed her practice and left the dispensary in the care of her medical colleagues.
She remained inactive for a time before opening Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women in 1887, in its second year the school was disrupted by disputes between Jex-Blake and several of the students who resented her imposition of strict rules of conduct. The school also struggled financially and had to be bailed out by Jex-Blakeâs father.
When a rival institution, the Medical College for Women, was opened by Ina Cadell, Grace Cadell, and Elsie Inglis, former students of Jex-Blake, the Edinburgh School of Medicine could no longer compete. The school folded and closed its doors in 1898.
In 1899 Jex-Blake retired but continued to campaign for womenâs suffrage until she passed away on 7th January 1912.
The Edinburgh Seven were recognised with posthumous degrees in July 2019, the degrees were collected on their behalf by a group of current students at Edinburgh Medical School. The sevenâs efforts eventually forced through legislation in 1877 to ensure women could study at university.
The second pic show Jex-Blake on the left and Pechy on the right then a pic of The Edinburgh Seven, the last pic is a Historic Scotland commemorative plaque to the Edinburgh Seven and the Surgeonsâ Hall riot, more of that in a few days.
Unmute !
Thatâs the most âmeowâ meow Iâve ever heard
SHEâS SO MAD THAT WATER IS WET
hold on can I just
Buy these
It doesnât feel like I should be able to just do this.
$4.99? 500 stickers that say Cubed for $4.99????
Working at the vet led to some sticker shenanigans such as:
Every stool (as in backless chair) in the building had atleast one âsave stoolâ sticker hidden on it
Office cat had something bright pink stuck to her face. After chasing her around a bit, we discovered it was a med label that said âtake with foodâ
That Last story is just so... on point Clinic CatTMÂ Vibes.
Sooo⊠This was the original set of Cross-Stitch bookmarks I did nearly a year ago now. (Most of them have found new homes now) When I first started, I didnât know who had done the original artwork, but I now know itâs Robbie Cookâs original âTechnicolour Princessâ art.
Iâve been asked by a few people for the patterns, and while Iâve started up my etsy store, Iâm not going to charge anyone for a design that I didnât actually create. But I have made some PDFâs for those interested⊠because cross-stitch is fun, but converting them into patterns was time consuming enough to put people off.
So. HERE BE DISNEY CROSS-STITCH PATTERNS. Lets see if I can get this link to work⊠- The whole set - Ariel - Aurora (Blue) - Aurora (Pink) - Belle - Cinderella - Jasmine - Mulan - Pocahontas - Rapunzel - Snow White - Tiana
Someone please let me know if they canât get to the files! EDIT: I put the pattern collection up on Craftsy, since I realised they let you put up free patterns.Â
Damn⊠This post has taken off recently! Glad to know people are enjoying the patterns!
... And now the google doc links are broken apparently.Â
THIS is should link to my Google Drive folder of free Cross stitch patterns, which is mostly the patterns above. Some other patterns may be added over time.
The worst thing about anti-vaxxers championing and using ivermectin en masse is that we can now no longer accuse them of having brain worms. :(
You can if itâs brain tapeworms.
Time travels to show this screenshot to someone 10 years ago and ask them to figure out what happened
The Black Footed cat is the smallest wild cat in Africa and one of the smallest wild cats in the world.
Hereâs an adult kitty for size comparison:
too smoll
OK but you canât mention my all-time favorite cat without also mentioning that these little motherfuckers are legendary for being 1000% ready to throw down with anyone at any time, theyâve literally been seen trying to fight a giraffe and are known to successfully bring down sheep by getting underneath them and ripping their bellies open like what the fuck, chill
Their name in Afrikaans means âanthill tigerâ because theyâll hide inside a hollowed out anthill and then jump out and try to rip your face off
They are perfect and I love them
Aw, look at these little murder muffins.
smallest and deadliest wild cat. Observed at a 60% success rate in hunting, and averaging a kill every fifty minutesâa lion might succeed in hunting twenty, twenty-five percent of the time. Their small, energetic bodies require a rate of a-murder-per-hour in order to sustain their metabolisms.
(âmiershoopâ can also mean âtermite moundâ, which is one of their preferred places to sleep)
LAST TIME I REBLOGGED THIS THE LAST COMPARISON WASNT ON THERE
This is the best thing I have ever seen
@klubbhead You used a cinnamon roll for Rey and not Leia?
Dam it it got better
S T O P
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Do Darth Maul next!
This is why I love Tumblr. Do Yoda next please or Boba Fett.
Oh god. I canât even think of something for them lol
Yoda gotta be raisin bread.
ENOUGH
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do grand moff tarkin.
The last one got me.
I CANâT
B R E A T H E
XD
i was mildly amused until the last one, at which point i broke
The post of legend has come again
OH GOD IT GOT BETTER
WHY HAS NO ONE DONE LUKE?????????????????????????????
Everytime I see this post I forget how the Jar Jar Binks sandwich looks like and than Iâm wheezing everytime I see it
The Seven + Nico & Reyna as John Oliver
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Frank
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Jason
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Walking the big dumb dog
this seems like it would be up your alley, @drferox. (More so if it was a little steggo, obviously...)
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smh it sure took them a minute
âeven amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. it is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to existâ â hayao miyazaki
I said this before but people are really getting the wrong message about koalas. When we who like animal science say that koalas are wretched and horrible we mean that they are fascinating and wonderful. It is brilliant that a mammal evolved into this idiot teddy bear that eats poison all day and screams and falls asleep. Canât we talk about an animal being wretched and degenerate without everyone saying âso theyâre useless and can all die, then?â Thatâs not the point. An animal doesnât need to be smart, or nice, or even in any way pleasant to be in the presence of to be amazing and special and worthy of existence. Who would ever want the planet to stop having hairy tree goblins that just hang off a tree branch spewing diarrhea while a laughable pea brain rolls around behind their asshole baby face.
What is not to love about a thing so soft and so small yet so terribly terribly vulgar
creatures like the koala and the ocean sunfish are scientifically important because they help us understand just how badly a living organism can function and still survive
âKoalas may be disastrous bastards up close, but their OUR disastrous bastards. And we will fight anyone else who talks shit about them.â - Australians and animal scientists/enthusiasts
What's the weirdest/most incorrect "it's mixed with X breed because Y" reasoning you've heard as a veterinary professional, shelter or rescue worker, or pet store employee?
One of my favorites is "it's part Maine coon because it has an M on its forehead!".... No, that is a pattern seen on tabby patterned cats, no matter what breed or lack thereof they are.
One I literally just overheard as a guy was starting at two puppies that are about as stereotypical looking for being border collie/German Shepherd mixes as possible :
"you can tell they're part pitbull because they have white on their chest and feet."
The "pitbulls"
Not quite the same but last year at my school somebody brought in their Rottweiler puppy because it wouldn't eat it's dog food... Turns out it was a black and tan guinea pig
I am literally in pain from contemplating that.
Someone once told me that the difference between mice and rats is that mice are indoor and rats are outdoor. As baffling as that was to hear I love the idea of a mouse going through a werewolf like transformation into a rat as soon as it steps outside
I was expecting things along the line of âMy [lovely grey moggy] here is clearly a Russian Blue/British Shorthair because they are Grey.â (We get lots of those at work) But he ârotweiller puppyâ guinea pig story above... I donât think that can be topped. My brain hurts thinking about that too much.