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    338 "female medicine."

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    discharge must have had some such Celtic adviser at his elbow , at least when he took his aim . Knowing * that any college for

    men or women must have a faculty , and with a presentiment fired that composed " subsequent a into medical , he of professional leaves publicity colleg himself e " for shall men men something prove , whom or women that he to the mi fall would g thing ht back be ' have in sorry upon the a to in faculty bushes have case

    was this his question neighbour for him 's cow we . Without will accep pau t the sing theory to try that and it settle is a

    , done buck , to —the the game creature he is seeking bhis , shot —and . see what damage he has

    It will be poor seen that here too y he does things in the double way . degree In the first because charge she he is arrai not gns squeamish the female asp h iran : she t for should the medical be too

    " sensitive , " " modest" " delicate" enoug and so forthto undertake the duties , of a hysician , as they , should be undertaken , or to

    p , she study unexpurgated ht to be ashamed medical of the work squeamishness s ; in the second and , — prudery presto !— of

    thinking oug - such duties indelicate , as only shopkeepers can be excused for thinking them !

    We presume that his apprehensions on the latter head , —viz ., that it is proposed that an expurgated medical course for women

    is feels to be her adop self ted called , —may to practis rest . e We as presume a hysician that at the the woman couch who of

    disease , will , if she obey her call , forget p sex and self sufficiently to avail herself of all the knowledto her work ; and

    that there is not one such who would ge necessary not utter as unqualified a protest himself . against Among the the offering advertisem of a sentimental ents of a cel half ebrated -education locomotive glue it as is

    he related the was hind , g that lued and once together fore parts when again of a dog the ; but dog was so stood cut hastil in in two y different was by tin a ' s directions done , that ,

    so that during his future life , the dog was accustomed to run , upon his fore-legs until he got tired , when he would turn over

    and run on his hind-legs . Our critic of " Female Medicine " has when put his unable argument together longer in to some such from way the , evidentl squeamishness y meaning of ,

    womanto turn any a somersault argue and denounce her overboldness in daring , to enter upon so indelicate a profession . Eut we venture

    b to y break assuring one him pair th of at his the legs project at once for , with educating a stroke women of our -to pen be ,

    physicians does not contemplate the elimination from a genuine sid course ering of - then study the of G a a sing zette as thing permanentl , however y upon " indelicate the fore . " -leg Con s of

    that its the paragrap profession the natu r , e we of medicine j w oin oman issue is fits with suited he it r f utterl to or its character duti es maintain an of d that that her ;

    338 "Female Medicine."

    338 " female medicine . "

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/50/