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196 FEMALE PHYSICIANS.
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Their intellectual and physical incapacity _reqxiires to be proved by " somethin the mental g more _stringent of than women the are dogmatic on the op whole inion equal of any to writer those . " of Whether men is a powers
wide small claim . and onl " y difficult A the Ph ri ysician ght question to exercise " speaks , on which such of the it powers is previou needless as that we s training to possess irls enter should , , medical be inasmuch they receive students great as the we or have received boysas if it were impossible g
same . But is as not some , training of this sort just what women want ? On reasoning thi " s Women point . , I ' This may s education be may allowed be must done to be quote with made any from such subj a as well ect to -known of ensure education author some , ac and : — curacy is done and
with their improvement men acquirements , whatever of the . they mental But learn the powers , because greatest , is they as object needful are of expected intellectual for one to sex produce education as the and other , the use ,
log and ic requires , and method the same , that means are attempted in both sexes in . the The education same accuracy of men , , attention should be , aimed at in that of women . "
And fcc It is again a narrow : — view of things to suppose that a just cultivation of " women dutie enlarge s best ' s that mental . sp They here powers see . The more will most take in those cultivated them du out ties women . of They their perform can sphere do , their — more it "will common . Lad onl y y
hold Jane with Grey would unlearned , I dare woman say , have of bound her day up . a Queen wound Elizabeth or managed did a manage houseany a kingdom ; and we find no pedantry in her way _withoxit of doing it . " * training
perhaps do That so at lad the an y strongest student immense s , point ent disadvantage ering in have our upon case been , the we , as course able regards are to quite do mere so read much p preliminary y ower to while , both admit deb ph . _ysical arred It is ; and intellectualthat women
from " Supposing the advantages the , difficulties of early education of the student open ' to s life most surpassed men . , you then come to the troubles and difficultieof inciient practice" And here the
physicals p . than weakness women of women no one denies is the ; argument but does . th That at justif , as y a us whole in assuming , men are that stronger every
individual the " A Ph medical ysician man , profession " what is stronger our own than feeble observation any in individual constitution confirms woman and , that ? scarcel many We members learn fit for from the of
strugg do le of life ; but we do are regulation not therefore for condemn limiting the them profession to comp y lete jto inaction men of ,
herculean nor we frames propose . On any the other handwe learn from our own observation , though not from your correspondent , , that in various ount of parts labor of under the country which
gentleman women of the would lower probabl classes y break go throug down . h an I hav am e myself been told by an eye a - . not workbut horses '
witness work and ; irls " , that and it in is Staffordshire an loyed unquestionable the , women low fact are h , doing that exhausting in , " manufactories men work ' s is wher iven , e over women to
them g while are the emp hiher branche , s , in roug which , some intelligence is g required , are reserved laborious , out for door men g . work The Liet same it , may not be be supposed said of that brick we -making look with and satisfac other - -
tion contrary upon , we this - believe overtasking that . by of opening the ph out ysical occupations strength in of which women intelli . On gence thebe drawn
from goes so , while for a condition something delivering in , which these the upper poor common classes degraded morality from women able the is almost to curse may hel gradually of an themselves idleness impossibility , we But may ; and up at
do the think same that time while effectuall women y hel are p those showing least themselves to p be capable of . such we an amount of physical exertion , the comparatively far easier career of a
pbysi-* " Friends in Council , " Book I . p 142 .
196 Female Physicians.
196 FEMALE PHYSICIANS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/52/
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