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    DESIROUS OE STUDYING MEDICINE. 331

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    M I Am Often Consulted By Young* Ladies ...

    physiology , and chemistry might form the commencement , and the subjects for examination . One piece of advice I would give the

    student ; make your study as practical as possible ; do not rely on simple reading * . If you study anatomy , try and get access to some

    little museum , see the bones themselves , study the prepared skeleton , look at plaster or papier-mache models , dissect birds , or a cat or

    dog , —a single glance will often be worth more than pages of . description . If you study chemistry , try and get admission to an

    apothecary ' s , see the substances spoken of , learn the taste , smell , and look of the various articles of the materia medica ; if you can

    handle medicines and put up prescriptions , so much the better . Daring some period of your study , you must enter and work in a

    laboratory . If you can see sick people and learn to observe symptoms , feel the pulse , examine the tongue , etc ., by all means do

    so ; it will wonderfully assist your memory in reading on the practice of medicine ; seek for ways in which you can assist the

    memory hy aid of the senses and judgment . Second Tear . In relation to the second period of study , six months be passed with great advantage in a hospital as nurse . No

    . woman may can now enter a hospital except in this capacity , but the advantages of seeing practice in a great hospital are so indispensable ,

    that no one who has the true -spirit for this work in her , will hesitate to accept the wearisome details of the nurse ' s duty , for the

    sake of the invaluable privilege of studying disease on a large scale : All pride and assumption of superiority must be laid aside ; and

    while diligently performing the distinct duties of the poor you accept , observeand privately make a record of whatever belongs to your

    proper medical , work . The menial drudgery that formerly was associated with the nurse's work is being laid aside in some of the London

    hosp city as itals I . here I have recommend ascertained , without that inj a ury lady to can health enter this , and in residence , such with a a capa little

    be womanl made y a tact most and valuable real earnestness time of stud in . the I work would , add that as , later may , it will belong to duty as physician y to superintend nurses and

    carefully attend to your the hygienic and other , arrangements of the sick room , it will be an advantage to you to have actually done the work

    of an intelligent nurse , and familiarised yourself with this important care part of of the health care is of half the the sick . physician As also ' s the work prevention , all experience of disease which and

    bear Ad _Maternity _<^ s ? he upon _° advise _* these n res : P subjects ee it _* had _^ ° residence better will be be of in deferred great the Maternite use to . the end , which of the I strong course ly ,

    not only on account of the prejudice that exists in relation to an Eng enlarged lish woman experience 's stud before ying medicine doing and so , in but France becaus , and e there the to advantage that are a institu great of

    education tion many which old mid than you w at ife can the prejudices better beginning discriminate . practices The and great avoid cling practice ing at the of end the of institu your - -

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    Desirous Oe Studying Medicine. 331

    DESIROUS OE STUDYING MEDICINE . 331

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/43/