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    MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION FOR WOMEN". 15 ...

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    the laws of health , and all points of public and private hygiene , far as science and practical life have taught us with regard to

    so them . This professor should also supervise the sanitary arrangements of the hospital itselfand should be the chief of the system

    , of instruction for nurses . We believe that this professorship _woLild be of real and important value , not only in giving the conditions of

    health students , and a thoroug fully imbuing h acquaintance them with with the the idea laws that and it is as much the province of the hysician to aid in preventing as in curing

    p diseasebut also as affording to teachers and mothers the opportunit they y , of much obtaining needand that yet sort have of knowled no means ge of which acquiring we have . In shown this

    so , hosp This ital is we a would sliht also sketch establish of the a mode system in of which instruction we wish for to nurses carry . g

    out the three-fold object of the institution , viz ., the education of physicians , the training of nurses , and the diffusion of sanitary

    knowled It is evident ge amongst that to women organise . such a hospital school would be a

    costl and are generall y the undertaking ho y ital barel foundation . y able It could to , pay the not for apparatus be their self-supporting own for teaching direct , for instruction , students and the ; sp

    professorshi It _woLild require ps , must , therefore be at , least a very in large part supported sum to organise not by be endowment efficientl such an .

    institution of the size I have described , and it could y carried out on a smaller scalebut could we awaken in the public a conviction of the value of the , objectwe believe that any amount

    , reall When y needed we took to accomp out our lish charter it would we knew "be raised that , . having few friends to end

    aid in the effortwe must work gradually toward so large an . , We according m a sing ly le began room the in a New York quarter Infirmary of the , city as a open small but dispen a few

    hours sary , during the week , , and poor supported by the contributions , of a few friendsThree we had grown sufficiently to take the

    house now . _occujDied years by ago the institution , No . 64 , Bleecker Street , and with the same board of trustees and consulting physicians we

    organised treated a by small the house infirmary department is about . , three This year thousan the number d seven of hun patient dred s .

    Although the institution is much too small to enable us to organiseanything like a complete system of instruction of the for elder students students or

    from nurses the , we female have medical received schools into the and house a few some women who have applied for instruction in nursing . We , have thus become more familiar

    with their needsand better able to shape the institution toward , we meeting great Althoug are value working them h . , we . In , cann the the ot institution first yet realise lace , even the the of ultimate fact its that present obj the ects size entire toward , is medical of which very

    practice of such an institution p is performed by women is the "best

    Medicine As A Profession For Women". 15 ...

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 157, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/13/