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OPEN COUNCIL. 141
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To^tlie Editors of the English Woman's J...
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_ 4. . To The ^Editors Of Tjie English W...
who I would are to venture studmedicine to ask from and where become you ph would ysicians draw ? I your think supp I ly have of females shown y
the ment necessity of the object of commencing How in earl irls y life of the sixteen training woul necessary d be disposed to the to achieve devote
-. many g themselves of their nature heart to and ive soul to— all celibacy prospects ; to of sacrifice wedded the life inherent to renounce tendencies all the
hopes and of self dreams sacrifice , of g buoyant up martyrdom and lovel but y simp maidenhood lfor the , , not purpose for of a brilliant earning
crown a of liv nature elihood and by - all a profession the usages or into and which requirements , they are to of y be society forced . against the dictates
ubject A most thoug , intelli h less gent averse married to lad the y idea to whom of consulting I spoke onl a femal y yesterday e doctor on than the
famil s others y , , , followe and the d up more her full remarks y she by filled saying the that post a of woman materfamilias ' s sphere , was the in more her
entirely she accomplished her destiny . ble I that would anything not commit but an the idiosyncrasy crime of lese , which majesie must to be the left sex to , to find think its own it possi path - of ladies to take
woman dislike in the world ' to s destiny that , could _j _^ art are of lead so the forcibl any Prayer large y I and -Book have bod clearl the y in y which honor set young forth , my to be . friend Ladies ' s tenets a regarding positive
A Physician Your or Twenty very faithful -One , Ser _Yeahs v , ant ' , standing .
Open Council. 141
OPEN COUNCIL . 141
To^Tlie Editors Of The English Woman's J...
To _^ tlie Editors of the English Woman _' s Journal . Ladies
number In reading s , everal the difficulties interestin in g the article way of on the " Female adoption Ph of ysicians such a p " lan in suggested your last
themselves , to mewhichwith your permission , I should like to suggest in your is " O not pen the Council restraint . " , In and most , control cases ( exercised though not by in the all ) p of hysician Insanity a and mo H st ysteri valu a - , aside the of whether
Lad women able y part Ph in ysicians of general the , treatment has could not be ? the broug And ph ht ysician putting to feel this full power confidence question of restraint and , reliance mainl on y ,
because he is a man ; and women naturally give way to and have confidence in much Also men isolated . in long the chronic relation illness between , where her a sing and le lad her y p in hysician middle becomes life is necessaril a most y
valuable matters which she for one is whi ; , excluded he ch is a gentleman often , her the onl onl is y y gentleman needful tie between , and friend her he , could and adviser the not , out and be er assistant rep world laced from in at
all May by a it Lad not y be Ph that ysician the . embarrassment felt in consulting a physician about some suffering To _sraving maladie for , too among sympath the s , thoug difficulty many y , which h more in of , certain thoug b may ein h prove n cases atural with a causing , is v a aluable b stranger etter perhaps resisted safeguard lady much would and against restrained be avoidable almost that ?
many , , g open if lelicacy not Again quite , of is mind as it lik great , el either y as that with in many lad the y old ladies or gentleman experienced will embrace , is fath so indispensable this erly profession physician ? , . in Is which it not
_rather somewhat to be fearedthat were the " way open" many women itterl shrink gaining y from unfitted a livelihood it ? for Without the , whil position e entering the hi , would ghl on y-g the press ifted subject , into who it of will , as whether adorn offering any this the profession profession means of ,
5 a desirable one for womenmay we not doubt if the delicacy and tender-,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/69/
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