The Scottish Society of the History of Medicine 'public'.This major event in Scottish social history was suitably celebrated throughout the country and many schools chose health topics for display in their exhibitions.A hundred years ago, during a period corresponding to that covered by this Report of Proceedings, stirring events were taking place in Edinburgh on the question of admission of women to the university and their medical education, centring round the figures of Sophia Jex-Blake and her six fellow women medical students.So hotly disputed was the issue that social life in the city was disrupted for bitter feelings were engendered between the protagonists and antagonists of the issues at stake.Those of one party could no longer meet with those of the other.
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David Mackenzie (1973) studied this question.