In 1895, at a time when agitation for opening the Austrian medical profession to women had reached an unprecedented level, a physician named Wilhelm Svetlin responded to the rising demands with what bordered on disbelief. "The most remarkable thing," Svetlin wrote, "is that the champions of university study for women, just like unreasoning children, desire first and demand most loudly precisely that which is the most difficult, the medical profession. One might think that it would be ...