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340 "FEMALE MEDICINE."
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blunt sician tenderness would oftener , gentleness have to , and be sympa feminine thy . than THe the mal female e phy-
masculine and how o . ft There en are are they of cours used e many " bugaboos doctors who " for are the no children t thus « ; wherconfidence
In how few of them will the children confide , e t is neces saved sary ? F being rom ho threa w m tened any with hygienic the transgressions "horrid doctor are ?"
be But a it Godsend is not y . only Women to children are the that n the atural fem confidantes ale physician of woul both d tt t
sexes " a min ; and d diseased where , " as they is of would ten the case by , far the the minis better ry p hysicians be o .
facul They ty have most , too needfu , much , l in more discerning , powerfu subtle l intuitions changes than and men feelings , —a arkabl
patient which patien . They ts find particularl it difficult y well to express i unders to . tan Th d ey and are rem deal with y _, -
persons diseases , whils t t heir men laws are more than t he ven peculiari considering ties of individual general titutions which , diseases have fastened . In shortthat
consupon , powerful u God in heaven remedial agen Lo t ve Love on ear , dwell th" s more M full . About y with " woman are the . says
,, onl After y physicians allhowe . " verthe Gazette seems to think that it is
these importan matters t that , . women He _encourages , should not them have to too u to much learn . " both delicacy as nurse ' " in . -
and patient to bear with infractions of delicacy . ' We presume that many a woman will smile at this kind advice , should and perhaps
her not so a f m ew uch will more wonder when wh she y infrac is the tions physician of delicacy than when unsex she is that the idea
tha the t patient there shoul ! Perhap d be educa s that ted f Journal ern ale h is ysicians not aware has recommended
fact itself tha strong t these ly to infractions the common of sense delicacy p of would this ag be e , b immeasurabl y the obvious y
diminished , thereby . And not only is this the case b , it is e t qually f
w manifest omen co th uld at c much onsult p promptl ain and y capab death le would person the s o p f reven lication their own for i
ass sex i . stance Many because a woman it involved has postponed a distasteful too late investi app gation by one
treatm of an the ent opposite , is las required sex t resort . , In the the Even consultation very if cases as is we wh most do ere n ap the ot t t o promp be it made test the
by comp as ndure man lete t y very h mastery shock m all s to by of their th medical e rem . modest e knowled mbran y , they , ge of by mi the g women ht well ter were be numb nerved attended er , s to of
th e eir sisters e , who , as patients , would be relieved of much greater
and ones But . " distastefulness there is a suggestion " in the of u duties stern labour of the , ' physician a ruggedness , from , " ,
340 "Female Medicine."
340 " FEMALE MEDICINE . "
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/52/
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