Mr. Adee to Mr.
Terrell.
Department
of State,
Washington, July 3,
1893.
No. 12.]Sir: I transmit for your information a copy of
correspondence with Mr. Fred. Perry Powers, of the Journal of Commerce,
relative to the
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proposed medical
practice of Dr. Mary P. Eddy in the Ottoman Dominions.
I am, etc.,
Alvey A. Adee,
Acting Secretary.
[Inclosure 1 in No. 12.]
Mr. Powers to Mr.
Quincy.
New
York, June 27, 1893.
(Received June 30.)
Dear Sir: I think that I addressed yon a few
weeks ago in regard to Dr. Mary Pierson Eddy, who is about to go to
Turkey as a missionary physician. That letter did not call for any
reply, but I write now to ask, if it is not too much trouble, if the
Department of State has found it practicable to send any suggestions
regarding Dr. Eddy to the minister of the United States in
Constantinople?
The Ottoman Government has refused or neglected to grant licenses to
physicians who are women to practice medicine except among women only or
among children only. Dr. Eddy holds diplomas from the regents of the
University of New York and the board of censors of Massachusetts. These
give her the right of unlimited medical practice in New York and
Massachusetts among men, women, and children. She has diplomas also from
institutions that instruct especially in diseases of the eye, and her
practice will be mainly in this line. But having diplomas granted under
the authority of the States of Massachusetts and New York, she hopes to
get an unlimited license to practice in Turkey, and I believe that the
Turkish authorities will grant it if the American minister should
manifest a decided wish to have it done, or if the Department of State
would express the hope that it might be done.
Very respectfully, yours,
[Inclosure 2, in No. 12]
Mr. Adee to Mr.
Powers.
Department of State,
Washington, July 8,
1893.
Sir: Your letter of the 27th ultimo, on behalf
of Dr. Mary Pierson Eddy, who is about to proceed to Turkey for medical
practice, has been received. Your former letter is not of record in this
Department.
The Turkish rules and regulations in regard to admitting alien physicians
to practice may be found at page 708,
Foreign Relations, 1889. I inclose a transcript thereof.
The Department is not informed of any Turkish requirement limiting female
physycians to attendance on female patients, but, if there be, the
subject would seem to be within the sovereign competence of the Ottoman
Government to regulate within its own jurisdiction.
I am, etc,
Alvey A. Adee,
Acting Secretary.
