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S FEMALE PHYSICIANS.
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* Sympa Women Thy Always With Suffering ...
labor for a time ; that is , the lower standard of female education and mental disciplineas compared with that of males .
, intuition "Women and have tact , however for the , a stud quickness y and practice of comprehension of the healing , a read 1 art y ,
which compensate for the defect ; and the defect is in the course of " being removed . Indeedthere are now enough of well-bred and
, well-educated women to supply the profession many times over , who might and who ought to volunteer for the good of their sex
and their kind . It is sometimes objected , that this is a masculine occupation , and .
that to go through the disagreeable process of obtaining a medical education is improper and indelicate for a woman . - The writer has
as little disposition to see women in men ' s places as men in women's . He is not one of those who take extreme views on the question
of " women ' s rights , " so called ., In the medical profession itself there are departments as unwomanly as others are unmanly . Even
the matter of the title should not _Tbe disregarded : the masculine appellation of Doctor belongs exclusively to men , and the feminine
correlative , Doctoress , both convenience and propriety assign to the lady physician . But to take the ground that it is indelicate and
unfeminine to study the structure of the human system , with a . view to understand its conditions of health and disease , and thereby
to alleviate suffering and save life , is more fastidious than sensible . It is surely more modest for one woman in a thousand to study
medicine and take charge of the health of the nine hundred and ninety-ninethan for the whole to remain ignorant and helpless ,
and depend , on men for information and treatment in all eases and circumstances . No one who approves of female nurses for men ,.
especially in military hospitals , can with a shadow of consistency object to the education of female physicians and their practice
among women and children . In tlie United States the plan of introducing women into the
medical profession has fairly commenced and is making good progress The . New England Female Medical Collegelocated in Boston * ..
, . commenced in 1848 , the germ being a school with two lecturers and twelve pupils , and the course of instruction not extending * beyond
midwifery and the diseases of women and children . In the same * - year an association was organized to carry forward the object , in
the language of its constitution , "to educate midwives , nurses , and ( so far as the wants of the public require ) female physicians . ' *
In 1850 islature the under association the name was of incorporated the lc Female by Medical the Massachusetts Education - Leg
Society . _" , In 1852 the number of professors was increased and a full course of medical education was given . In 1854 the Legislature
made a grant of 5000 dollars for scholarships _; in 1855 , another grant of 10 , 000 dollars for other purposes ; and in 1856 , a full
college charter was conferred . The course of education is similar to
S Female Physicians.
S FEMALE PHYSICIANS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/8/
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