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198 FEMALE PHYSICIANS.
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decide , positively that exp -women can or cannot go y throug , h the medical course favorable reluctance uninjured ; conclusions in that coming they will forward We or will are as not reminded students find patients b , let . us And correspondent not if hastil ladies y show draw that some un the - -
training irls of sixteen must will commence eagerl . in earl for y life admission ; and y it int your would o a profession be folly to " into expect which that "
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-up gare can we friends upon their and own for convictions them to enter against upon the such authority a struggle of unaided their more would experienced be clearly
impossible their growth , . On and the who other have hand arrived , women at whose an convictions at which they have are grown at lib with erty
, age io The jud spring ge for and themselves energy find which it mi too ght late have to enter been upon turned the to in medical account course for the .
service of God and man has been exhaustedfrittered away desultory , unsatisf Your ying effort , ondent if it has candidl not foun admits d an outlet that , for " You itself know in actual and the mischief readers . of
correspy , , Men this Journal the most know liberalj , the and female the most heart better than do he not can know . " It and is indeed never will so .
happy know , , . " what Young women ladies are are suffering not all , who so generous , thoug to luxurious the htless , eye of as idleness the they world seem , is , . are The much " very
injunction to happ mockery reconcile iness to to , unblessed them " them make s as elves themselves to of . Kasselas Grod and happy and unhallowed _Ney " in akah of in men the , Happy may I am they Valley , , & c never , as . To learn such a
A . C . K . To the Editors of the English Woman ' s Journal ,
whether Ladies A "P ladies h , ysician would of Twenty be likel -one to Years loy ' Standing female " doctors inquires in I the beg last to say Journal that
I quickness think a of good obs many ervation would for ; which y a certain emp women number are remarkable being . believ of op , would inion that th be at very the
serviceable in atural the medical aptitud profession and genius . For for doctoring my part , I which e would women make .
possess a ne , I their have advice no doub peculiarl thowever y valuable that , the if p th h ey ysician were is educated right in say for ing the that _purpose ladies .
• would generally , prefer being , attended by a man , as they would have more emp c who onfidence loy have ing in men preference his _^ if jud so gment inclined for femal ; but : the it doctors is question not and proposed is have merel equal to y whether prevent confidence those women in womea their from
jud not - case gment send that , for they a shall should female be indul doctor not ged . in The that e They ph preference ysician would , say not or s most not because . trul It y seems they that would to men me find would a hard it
awkward and a disagreeable to . be attended by a medical , adviser of the other is to
sex avoid , and this one very of awkwardness the reasons ; wh if y the women feeling wish is r to ight have and female natural doctors in men , , it is
surely right and natural in women also .
198 Female Physicians.
198 FEMALE _PHYSICIANS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/54/
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