[1] When two students, Grace Cadell and her sister Martha, were dismissed in 1888 for a breach of rules, they successfully sued Jex-Blake and the school.

[1] John Inglis her father had a circle of influential friends, including the Principal of the University of Edinburgh, Sir William Muir.

They set up the Scottish Association for the Medical Education of Women, which soon had an impressive list of supporters and financial backers.

[5][6] It aimed to prepare the women students for the examinations of the Triple Qualification (TQ) offered by the Scottish medical Royal Colleges.

The main teaching hospital, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, refused to allow women medical students on its wards.

The college arranged for its clinical teaching at Glasgow Royal Infirmary where two surgeons, Sir William Macewen and James Hogarth Pringle were ardent supporters of medical education for women.