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FEMALE PHYSICIANS. 199
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introduction But this question of female has doctors another would and affect more the important . Medical aspect , men viz ., how erall the poorgeny
surgeries show much , and kindness by charg to ing the them poor much by g less iving for advice attendance cheap at or their gratis own at homes their than the position they do of the gentlefolks rich . Still they , as are they obli have ged wives to charge and families a great deal to maintain more than , in
soon a working as the breadwinner man can afford is laid , to up pay —for . his Thus Avages , thoug cannot h the be doctor dispensed is sent with for —the as "wife and children are often left to struggle through their illnesses without
hour advice suffering of , and need has the been are doctor endured made is over onl , and y to app sometimes an lied i to norant in not bad nei till cases hbor too , after late and . mu sometimes Women ch unnecessary in suffer their gg
could for But life afford female from to the doctors charge consequences , much as they less would of bad and have treatment would no therefore wives . and , be families within to reach maintain of the ,
poor ; and thus—granting even , that women will not be as clever doctors as men is better —it is than still none clear and that it the is certain poor would that gain a medicall by them educated , as an inferior woman doctor could y
b great man female ag , want e a case doctors of the better poor , of whom th is an cheap the in medical ignorant inion advice ones we , who want and are this not now can a f emp ew only loyed but be a supp . leg The lied ion
b that y e ears every an considerable d , before village this , desirable may my op be provided end , can be with accomp , one . lished It will , , but of we cours may e ,
all hope y ht to to live feel years long towards enoug ladies h to see who the stud beginning the medical of this professio great reform n as . we I did tliink
towe oug y wards shock the their ' lad delicacy y nurses , but in the they Crimea surmounted . Doubtless their they natur met al feelings with man , for y things the sak to the less
since of relieving ; on the their contrary fellow , -creatures to have formed , and hav one e been of that none noble band respected is always ever felt
to be an honorable distinction . In future timeswhen female doctors are an old established fact , women motive will obstacles doubtless than and the enter disagreeables chance , the profession of hereafter to be merel overcome making y to earn are a so _'living is gre required at , but , that at to present a support stronger the a
hi candidate gh honor ; , therefore which , however , in my , op they inion will , the probabl pioneers money y not with of receive the cause , save are from and entitled take a few its to ;
but years hence their name will be remembered gratitude , place among the list of benefactors of mankind . I am , & c ,
A _Country Lady . To the Editors of the Mnglish Woman ' s Journal .
Ladies St . Margaret March 's 27 Banks th , _1862 , Rochester . ,
In the , number of your Journal for March there is an article on Female Physicians , by Dr . Samuel Gregory , of United Boston States , U . S . the desiof h
Allow me to remarkthat in the gnation pydistinguished sician is used from for all surgeons medical , . practitioners Permit and me to indivisible , whilst urge upon in and Eng the lan th attention at d physicians medical of your are readers the fact that medicine is one every
man learns every part of the medical art , althoug , h he may choose to practise wish speciall to impress y subsequentl this fact y . readersfor ladies are apt to think
that I they might learn medicine upon and your midwifery , and , omit surgery would . If it fail were to
become conceded members to women of to the omit Medical the stud Profession y of surgery : they , then would women be physic-women let hear
and midwifery-women , but not Medical Women . Pray us no more
Female Physicians. 199
_FEMALE PHYSICIANS . 199
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/55/
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