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The only woman to obtain honours in medicine, booklet, Bishop University Medicine Faculty, 1893-1894

Page 34 of the University of Bishop’s Collage booklet, sepia. This page presents a list of students having obtained honours in medicine at Bishop’s. The top of the page reads: “Students who have obtained Honors in Medicine in this University”. The list of students is in two columns, and the first name is “ABBOTT, Miss Maude – 1892. Practical Anatomy, Senior Prize.”

This booklet announces the 23rd annual session of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bishop’s College in Montreal. It includes a chapter on the admission of women to the medical program, stating that they are able to adapt to the requirements of the program. Maude Abbott is mentioned as the only female student to have obtained honours in medicine at Bishop’s College. An engraving of the university’s Faculty of Medicine building, built in Montreal in 1871, is shown on the last page of the booklet.