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ELIZABETH BLACKWEUD. 95
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
home-sympathies of which , she had been deprived ; while the extension of her practice as a physician has been the natural result of her
success in the families by -whom her medical services were successively employedand has constantly increasedwith that steady
, , , spontaneous growth which constitutes the best evidence of the vitality of any undertaking .
. In 1852 she delivered a series of lectures , to ladies , on subjects connected with health and physical development . In a letter
written at that period she remarks , " I am trying to interest people in my plans for the sanitorium I am so anxious to establishand
, which I hope to accomplish in course of time . The importance of physical training becomes constantly more and more evident to me ,
and I mean to make aesthetic gymnastics a _' main point in my lectures . I shall not be satisfied until I see a gymnasmm on Hang's system
introduced here , and exercise taught to children as regularly as reading . "
In 1853 she published a work entitled ' The Laws of Life _, considered with Reference to the Physical Education of Girls ; which has been
favourably noticed both in England and in America . In the same year she established a Dispensary for JV oraen
and Children , beginning with the furnishing of advice and medicine gratis to applicantsbut with a view to the subsequent
extension of the undertaking , by the reception of in-door patients as its funds should increase—with the triple aim , as set forth
in the prospectus , —first , of providing indigent women with the medical aid of physicians of their own sex , and thus proving by
experience the efficaciousness of such aid ; secondly , of giving to this class of patients , with the advice and medicine called for "by
their disease , plain , kind advice , in relation to the care of their . health , the education of their children , and the formation of rational habits of life ; thirdlyof training an efficient body of nurses for the
community ; thus rendering , an important service to society , by providing suitable occupation for many deserving women "who would
gladly become nurses could they obtain the necessary training , and insuring the welfare of the patients by placing them under the
care of well-chosen and faithful attendants . This Dispensary was organised by the nomination of Messrs . Butler , White , Haydock ,
Sedgewick , Collins , Field , Draper , Grreely , West , Harris , Foster , RaymondFlandersDanaManningSpringand Bowneas Trustees .
Consulting , Physicians , , Drs , . Kissam , , Parker , , Cammann , , and Taylor . Attending Physician , Dr . Elizabeth BlackwelL The following
extracts from the _« First Annual Beport of the New-York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children' will show the success which had
attended the new institution , incorporated in 1854 by an Act of the Leg " The islature Eleventh of New Ward York , . " says this Eeport , " was chosen as the
location of the dispensary , it being destitute of medical charity ,
Elizabeth Blackweud. 95
ELIZABETH BLACKWEUD . 95
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/23/
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