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    4 FEMALE PHYSICIANS.

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    * Sympa Women Thy Always With Suffering ...

    <© sa f these uncure cases d , for are it , in is a their very clear ginning and , ¦ well of li -known ght and truth trifling , that impo many r-

    _tance . All these evils of medical practice spring not , in the main , from any want of competence in medicines or in medical men , but

    from in a good general the de delicacy gree as to from the of impor the a want relations tand of meaning information existing' between and among tend the enc the y sexes of popula d , isorde and tion in rs

    , , manifested "It is an by interesting a certain train stion of symptoms as to _what . can be done to obviate

    que there the perpetuit recourse y of such b evils means — -evils of which that have the existed amount for of ages suffering . Is y

    t e ndured ans any w er y women ht t o be b e grea the t affirma ly lessened tive ? for I I believe of opinion that that if a . _;

    medical oug titioner know how to obtain the entire confidence , of the class prac of who habitually consult him j if he be endowed

    with a clear persons perceptive power , a sound judgment , a real probity , and a proper degree of intelligence , and a familiarity with the

    doct his trines he particular evils of a good w sp hich here medical of ac lain tion scho t , is ol , " here found he w made ill capable , so ; and as f if grea to these t t ly lessening ex qualitie tent o s f comp

    abate are generall the evil throug attache hou d t t the physicians population , then in general it is in . " their power to

    Here we have a statement of the evils and the remedy . If such and such qualities and qualifications are combined in medical men , and theknow how to obtain the entire confidence of their female

    patients y , the Professor believes it is in their power to abate the evil . There is , however , a simple , natural , and effec evils tua arise l remed mainl y to

    ~ which * . Let c froin then Dr the . Mei those delicacy gs rela does ti of not the b allude e relations dis . He sed existing says with these in between these m the atters sexes and . y " p

    let , females , have physicians of their own sex , . This remedy , will moreoverso far as females are concerned , meet a point suggested

    by diseases Sir John treated , Forbes In their , in speaking earliest stages of the , great In order importance to obtain of a having speedy facilitatearl

    and efficient cure—namely , will encourage and e an y w app effectual hic lication h now relief f for requen relief Humanity tly — prevent by removing morality application embarrassments and at the all p , h or ysical till and too well obstacles late -being for

    . , , of society demand the introduction of women into the medical pro _^ fession . femi

    nine exceptions There , that is been in one past department performed times in by of all professional women nations and it duty at has the , so with peculiarl present hardl time y y any in

    no country , has it been wholly wrested ; from them , the duty of assisting women in childbirthIt would seem that if there is any

    . from 4 i appropri her at sex e sp it here is " this for . women The " , beyond _midwives that " which are spoken is inseparable of with

    commendation in Scripture ; in Egypt , Greece , and Koine , they

    4 Female Physicians.

    4 FEMALE PHYSICIANS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/4/