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FEMALE PHYSICIANS. 3
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* Sympa Women Thy Always With Suffering ...
This tendency of thing's has an important bearing" upon the introduction of women into the medical profession ; for while
they , as the handmaids of nature , possessing all the qualities for modes good nursing of dealing * , are with predisposed diseaseman to y the mig natural ht be deterred and rational from
, b hending ecoming and healers working of the the sick comp , b lica y the ted formidable and unwield task y machinery of compre of
the system , and by their repugnance to so much of the experimental , the artistic , and heroic , as now prevails , to the reproach of
the profession , and the detriment of the public . Had the family of JEsculapius consisted of daughters as well as sons , these milder
methods of treatment , this co-operation with nature , recommended hy those eminent medical gentlemen , would doubtless have ever
prevailed Women . hicians are eseciallneeded in the female wards of y
hospitals , insane pys asylums , alm p shouses , prisons , and reformatory institutions for femaleswhere the ofessional skill of women
could be so properly and , advantageousl pr y employed in the investigation and treatment of disease , and their kindly ministrations and
healing influence would do so much to restore mental and moral health to the afflicted and the erring . And to provide none but
male physicians for the female patients of these various institutions is a grave error , and one that should be corrected as soon as
practicable . Female seminaries should also be provided with female hysicians to act as teachers of physiology and hygieneand
supervisors One p of the of evils health of , the as well present as medical system attendants of having . men only in , the
medical profession is , that the benefits of medical science and skill are to a great extent lost to the female portion of the public .
This point is well presented by Professor Meigs , of the Jefferson medical Medical institutions College , Philadel in the p United hia , one States of the . Dr most . Mei numerousl gs is a ph y ysician attended of
, extensive practice and great experience , and author of large medical works . In his volume on the diseases of women , he speaks as
follows : — " The relations between the sexes are of so delicate a character dif
that the duties of the medical practitioner are necessarily more - ficult when he comes to take charge of a patient laboring under any
one of the great host of female complaints than when he is called tions upon to the treat exanthemata the more gen & c eral . . disorders . . It , such is to as be fevers confessed , inflamma that
a very , general opinion , exists as to the difficulty of effectually curing that many of the diseases of of these wom disorders en ; and it going is mortif the ying whole , as it round is true of ,
we see cases the profession , in any village , town , or city , and falling at last into the hands of the quack ; either ending in some surprising cure , or
leading to the gra the ve victim , the las , by t refuge gradual of t lapses he incura of health ble , or rather strength uncured , down . I B 2
Female Physicians. 3
FEMALE PHYSICIANS . 3
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/3/
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