Woman's World

j-iio w unjan jjiisjuiuli wnu is iu ut; nssisfant at the Hopkinsville Lunatic asyluin, the iirst appointee of the kind in the state's bistory, Mrs. Dr. F. Kathryu Bauser, is a íiative of Newport, Ky. Sbewas edncated in theNewport public schools and tbeu entered the Cinciuuati College of Medicine, from whicb she gradnated in 1893, reoeiving a gold medal for the best paper on anatomy. She then went to New York, wliore she took special course in the Postgradnate School of Medicine, which was suppleiuented by Ihe study of diseases of iusauo worueu in a New York hospital for the insane. She then went to Lesington, where she remained a few mouths in the practico of her fession and last suinmer went to New York and took another four months' ccmrse in the Postgraduate school, making a specialty of the stndy of the diseases of women. Mrs. Hauser is a lady of rare good common sense. She believes that woman's sphere, instead of being to shape legislation, is the amelioration of mankind. Shesays that the modern colleges and the new road open to woruan's effort are but a means to this end, and she feels that the opportunities they offer will ultimately result in great good to humanity. She tbinks that a woman physician ia absolntely necessary in all eleeinosyuary institntions where women are cared for, and especially does she think this the case in asylums for the insane. Shesays that her experience and observatións íd such asylums teach her that insane women are frequently nnable to give male physicians anything like a perfect idea of their symptoms, so that it is well nigh impossibJe for them to properly treat such unfortunates. Dr. Hauser believes that the only proper way to thoroughly understand - insane patients is to spend a great deal of time in the wards, studying their symptoms, their temperaments and ■watcbing over them carefully during as many honra of the day as is possible. She believes many unfortunate women, who are kept locked up in lnnatic asyImns for years, might be easily cured ■within a few moaths were their physical oondition thoroughly understood by the attendiug physician. She does not mean to cast any reflection on the ability of male physicians, but shefirmly contends that no man, however well equipped in the science and practice of medicine he may be, can nnderstand a woman 's condition as perfectly as a woman can who ia approxhnately as well qnalified. - ■