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VEMALE PHYSICIANS. 7
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* Sympa Women Thy Always With Suffering ...
. maternal head of a family , suppose large numbers of young women should studmedicinecommence practiceand then be
diverted wholly or in y part for a , few years ; they could , then resume their vocation , with additional qualifications , and pursue it for ten ,
twenty Supporting , or - the thirty famil years y , and . sometimes The wife is does often it _wholl obli y ged , by to manual aid in or
Intellectual labor ; and why not by the practice of the healing art ?
Butfrom the census alluded to , it appeared that in about onefifth of , the familiesin one thousand in five thousand , there were
no children to absorb , the attention of the mistress of the house ; and further that there were in Great Britain , not including * Ireland ,
795590 widows , many thousands of whom of course need sonie ' emp above , loyment half a for million self-support more female . Again s than , it males appeared and that that there one were
hundred women in every eight hundred remained sing , le . In an article on " Female Industry" in the Edinburgh Review for 1859 it is stated ,
that " out of six millions , of women above twenty years , of age , in Great Britain , exclusive of Ireland , and of course the colonies , no
less than half are industrial in their mode of life . More than a third—more than two million—are independent in their industry _>
are the census self-supporting under the , like head men of . " Medical The number Profession of , " men was returned 22 , 383 . To by
but supp Similar a ly sli half ght , calculations of draug the ht profession upon would the , vast with l available y women to other would number countries therefore . thoug make h ,
from the extensive colonization app and other disturbing causes , , the surp countries lus of however females there in Great Britain to be is an unusuall excess y in large the . number In most o € appears
females over , that , of males at certain periods of life . In a paper prepared ( Eng . ) Statistical by John Societ Robertson y , in 1854 , and , the published author Societ says by entitled , the " A Manchester number hts of
years on the ago Excess , in a of paper Adult read Female before s in the this Population y , of Great ' Thoug Britain , with reference to its Causes and Consequences / I endeavored to
show that the female sexin Christian countries , are probably been designed assigned for duties them . more The in , reasons number wer and e , importance that above than the twentieth in have North yet
year America , in all women fully-peop considerabl led States outnumb , whether ered in the Europe other or sex ; and thatas this , excess is produced y by causes which remain in steady
operation Infer , that , it we exists detect for b therein eneficent a social natural ends law . " , and may allowably
The number of 1850 of was physicians 40564 in and the is United now probabl States , y according 50000 . to B the ut
census there * is an immense , multitude ,, of unemployed women to , supply colaborers in the profession . must
There is one disadvantage under which this enterprise
Vemale Physicians. 7
VEMALE PHYSICIANS . 7
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/7/
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