“ The trustees of that hospital, then just completed and about to be opened, did a thing without precedent in placing a woman physician in absolute and independent ALICE BENNETT. charge of their women insane, and dire predictions were made of the results of that revolutionary experiment. At the end of twelve years that hospital is the acknowledged head of the institutions of its kind in the State, if not in the country, and from its successful work the movement, now everywhere felt, to place all insane women under the care of physicians of their own sex, is constantly gaining impetus. ”