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FEMALE PHYSICIANS. 195
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XXXVI.—FEMALE PHYSICIANS.
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So many letters have reached us upon thi...
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1. A Revised Code Of Regulations. Presen...
means receive p instruction laced within as its now reach , but of that acquiring every an child education would have suited the to
its position in life . It has lbeen already stated that private benevolence has uniformly exceeded by two-thirds the Government
grant ; it is only reasonable to expect that the same _corresponding rate will be preserved in future disbursements . Againit must
, never be forgotten that crime diminishes in proportion to the advance of education . Sir J . Kay Shuttleworth instances Manchester
as a living example of this truth . The yearly average cost of establishments for the repression of crime may be reckoned at
about two millions . May we notto a certain extententertain the hope that increased
, , grants towards education will not involve increased taxation , —but that it will be rather the diversion of money from the repression of
an acknowledged evil , towards the extinction of that evil , by the preventive agency of moral and religious education . This will be
the true method of " paying * for results . "
A . E . G .
Female Physicians. 195
_FEMALE PHYSICIANS . 195
Xxxvi.—Female Physicians.
XXXVI . —FEMALE PHYSICIANS .
So Many Letters Have Reached Us Upon Thi...
So many letters have reached us upon this subject , showing the deep interest it excitesthat our Open Council pages quite fail to
, afford room for them . Believing the time ripe for discussion upon this important matter , ' we give these letters in an independent
article , though , as in Open Council , we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed . —Eds .
IjADIES The elaborate , and apparently well-considered observations of " A Phy-- _sician of last month Twenty call -one for Tears some ' Standing notice on , " the part English of those Woman who believe ' s Journal th
, e Medical Your correspondent Profession to , after a sp expressing here of usefulness his general especiall symp y suited y with to the -women effort . s
. remark made for , that the " " expansion we shall fail of woman in _oiir ' attempts responsibilities if they are and not work consonant , " proceeds wit h o hand moral nature which the
upon those laws which alone our p any ysical ethical or political structure can are be raised necessary , that basis shall not dispute prove whether the mere there ' ba i seless s fabric thing of in a the vision practice . ' " I of s it medicine not the question bwomen in
which must , necessarily contravene any these laws ? y " A Physician " asks us to consider the question under two aspects , corelements which determine the choice of
liis responding man F profession irst in selecting s to to may t aptitude w a thro profe main w ssion b him which . : his own I conceive aptitude is , and meant the a general here into liking a youn which for g
, a , y scarcel some particul su ar pursuit that t , he combined most veh with ement a certain jectors amount to female of ability hysicians . I
would y argue ppose thatas a classwomen have less taste for medicine p than men . An ignorant love , of doctoring , is oneof the recognised weaknesses of women .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/51/
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