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FEMALE PHYSICIANS. 197
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remarked clan should that not " unless be closed she to can us on the with ground men in of all ph the ysical various weakness branches . It of is cope
medical inquiry , and practice , she will , in the race of life , necessarily go to the Be position wall it ; so and . will Women the not strugg alarm are le , so them which much b will in its be the novelty unavoidable habit and of goin , their must g fate to be the to wil wall the l onl stronger , that be the the . "
same as that of all members of y the profession , who are not able to y cope on equal terms with their superior brethren .
h As ysicians we lo and ok round surgeons upon who medical do not men app , e we ar to cannot be superior help observing in ability many to p averwomen ; and as for many years only women somewhat above the
lour profession position average age five in could , perhaps mental hundred scarcel and they a y p would be hysical worse is not not strength always than thoug that will ht go much to of dare the governesses of to wall think . At . of any h A ysicians entering practice rate , ; their the but of
or year among p ladies than , , sa who y , , £ can 200 seldom a year , , even will b not y hard desp work ise the during crumbs their which best fall years from , earn the rich ore
man ' s table . ment " A and Physician support " proceeds of female to h inquire ysicians , " ? _" Is " there We unhesitating a proper field l for the l emp that loy all
p y repy withi the diseases n the province to which of women the female and p children hysician , are and liable surely would that is naturall a domain y come wide here of But
enough , without encroaching upon the spmen . your correthat this spondent ladies point is my being confident experience suddenl that questioned is ladies widely would different wou not ld re from consult lat his once female . I can that doctors well they believe . would On
not have , confidence in y a woman . , Hastily p assuming y that the female p superior hysician would they be either naturall a shallow feel that , superficiall they would y taught efer lad the y , or services a sort of of
an able and nurse experienced , man . y But ladies who have had pr time to think , are almost unanimous in declaring that' if they could secure the attendance of certified b
equall personal would y g well ive knowled them -educated the preference when women I , ( . and that I speak this this can not feeling be from is hearing much y , stronger but a degree from , ) among actual they
refined and women the inferior of ge the , poorer order of say classes practitioners , who are more The at feeling the mercy is strongest of young of
men . and all among tenderness young of g a irls woman . I believe would that be absolutel to many more of them curative the sympath than the y y
possibly superior skill of a man—of which , indeed , they often refuse to avail themselves
Finall lof y , females your . correspondent who are to stud inquires y medicine from whence and become you p would hysicians draw ? your To suppy
which I reply , from whence do we draw our supply of governesses ? Of them there appeal's to be an abundant , nay an excessive and soul , supp to ly . A female She
medical student need not " devote herself heart celibacy . " but mi driven ght if indeed suitable into marriage exercise arri b a y more the came mere independent in her longing choice for her some , profession because satisf she y need ing would occupation be no not hin be - ;
surel drance y , . be To an have admirable m passed age preparation a few years for in married patient way , stud life y ; and and she earnest would work in be would better of ,
widowhood off than other or other women misfortune , in having . This a profession question , to of fall marriage back , upon in fact , amounts case to this—Are all women to be shut out from any and every method of
earning money , by honest and intelligent work lest they should grow too independent of their natural supporters , or are they to be encouraged and m _^ to ged be to
believed use their that gifts women as those have who certain must ifts give of hand account and ? that It is it is beg not inning unfeminine g , also be admitted
that to use they them have . heads _JLet us , hope and that that in this a generation being so , it or is two their it bounden will duty " sin-
Female Physicians. 197
_FEMALE _PHYSICIANS . 197
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/53/
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