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    332 LETTER TO YOUNG LADIES.

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

    tion will be invaluable to you , and the vastly increased medical experience which you will possess after a six months' residence

    there , will fully repay you . for the immense discomforts of the position . You . will see every variety of midwifery practice , perform

    a large amount yourself , and acquire the skilful touch so necessary in the profession . The price of tuition is very low . A certificate

    of baptism , good character , and vaccination , with a knowledge of reading and writing , are the only qualifications required . Though

    the community-life of the institution is trying to English feeling , and the style of living , food , etc ., of the plainest description , the

    arrangements of time and occupation are all made for the benefit of the il .

    American pup The time spent in America will give not only the study , drill of collegebut the degree of a legal practitioner .

    There is no school of medi , cine open to women in Europe , but there are several open in America , and though a foreign degree is not

    _Registration , necessarily recognised in England , i . e . though the council which registers properly qualified medical practitioners may or may

    not accept the degree as evidence of suitable study , still the probabilities are that it would be accepted , if evidence of the whole course

    of study were furnished , and the application for registration made in the proper way . You can practise in England without this

    registration . The chief disadvantages of doing so , ( independently of the loss of the prestige of registration , ) are the inability to compel

    the payment of fees , or to take part in established hospitals , neither of whichI thinkwould much affect you . All physicians holding

    foreign di , plomas labor , under the same difficulty . All you can do , however , is to obtain the best diploma accessible to you ; and . I think

    that the enlarged experience , as well as real knowledge , to be gained bAmerican studyare well worth the proposed expenditure

    of time . y The best methods , of studying in America may be obtained without difficulty when the time comes for carrying out this part of

    the plan . Expense . It is difficult to make a calculation of the sum of money

    required for carrying out such a plan of education as is here laid downas it will vary greatlyaccording to the expenditures made

    for priv , ate instruction , this instruction , being as expensive as it is valuable . But I think I may safely state that £ 100 per annum

    will be necessary , exclusive of travelling expenses , clothes , books , and instrumentsbut inclusive of board , public tuition , and some

    private instruction , . To this I must add that means of support must be possessed to some extent during the first years of practice ,

    for no one should calculate on a rapid success in practice . _* * _Commixnications from any young lady seriously desirous of studying the medical profession , may VVoin "be addressed Journal to Dr _* E . JBlackwell , care of the

    Editors of the English "an ' s .

    332 Letter To Young Ladies.

    332 LETTER TO YOUNG LADIES .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/44/