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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 137
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Dr . Zakrzewska offered two years' gratuitous services as lier contribution to the Infirmary , and remained there as resident physician ,
attending to her private practice in the afternoon . In the second year of the existence of the Infirmary , Dr . Elizabeth Blackwell _' s
health compelled her to go to Europe , and for nine months her sisterDr . Emily Blackwelland Dr . Marie Zakrzewska took entire
charge , of the Infirmary ; the , attendance at the dispensary then averaging sixty daily . In the spring of 1859 , Dr . Zakrzewska was
invited to take charge of a hospital in connexion with the New England Female Medical College in Boston , and having proved
during Dr . Elizabeth _BlackwelTs absence in Europe , that the New York Infirmary could well be managed and sustained by two
physicians , she , with consent of the Drs . Blackwell , having fulfilled on her the promise 5 th of of June two years 1859 ' for gratuitous Boston , service where to she the is now Infirmary " striving , left
to make the hospital , department , as useful as the New York Infirmary is to the public and the students . "
Should the sketch we have here given of this brave -woman send our readers to the book" A Practical Illustration of Woman ' s Right
, to Labor , '' they will find themselves amply repaid by its perusal . The opinions of Dr . Zakrzewska on the evils and injustice of the present "
position of women are clearly and strongly set forth , and substantiated by facts within her own experience . There are some eloquent
and pointed passages on this subject which appeal alike to the heads and hearts of their readers .
Mrs . Dall has done good service in persuading Marie Zakrzewska to allow her to publish this highly interesting biographical letter .
We quote a passage from Mrs . Dall ' s preface , because it accords with our own experience , and expresses a fact which we would
gladly see more generally acknowledged . noble that "It , however men never do happens faithless not with that and heart a unbelieving true and and hand forcible women attempt word themselves to is ive spoken it may efficiency for be women , . some If ,
women They realize _themselves more profoundl are hard _uj y : _> than on their women own the sex , depth men are g of never affection so in and earnest self- . denial in the womanlsouland they feel alsowith crushing certaintythe
y ; , , way real . si Keflecting gnificance men of the are obstacles at this moment they hav read e y themselves to help women placed to enter in woman wider have ' s
fields of laborbecauseon the one sidethe destitution and vice they hel stands ped a to perpetual creat , e appal blasp s , their hemy consciences in the face , ; of and the on Most the other High , . " a profane inanity
One more extract from this preface , and we have done . " One thing I feel profoundl of y : the as world men sow its they terrible must reap ; and will so must
women be abated . The till practical women misery themselves — from - their earliest impurity- — s to never enter calm the arena , but , ab of ove which all , thoroug they prepare are hly ambitious trained ; , trained and stand also there at _tjie at side last year of mature men , with and
ti whom or ons fitness . they . by must beine ultimatel - thrown y , work at the ; and last not moment likely , , into therefore unaccustomed , to lose balance
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Notices Of Books. 137
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 137
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/65/
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