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284 OPEN" COUNCIL.
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To tlie Editors of the English Woman's J...
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
become betimes fit not for onl so try skill ing and a scene knowled , attend but at one of the and Hospitals , and of mind acquire so gecourage presence
- that be a she competent might be y nurse useful in instead the severest of troublesome ,, illnesses , not in a apt painful to he emergency disconcerted , and , or
terrified views one by day the to sufferings a gentleman or the , a irritability very intelli of gent the , patient good-natured . I was expounding man , fancying my myself should be safe an for abundance once , for of is It capable not obviousl nurses y in every the world body's ? interest Butoh that lame there and
, , look Impotent of deep conclusion conviction ! My while friend he fixed uttered upon the me , fat when al sentence I had : done " She , a should severe
learn with whom to cook he . " has Your exchanged , Correspondent ideas , and love I , s in to my tell turn of the , may intelli be gent allowed ladies to
by mention relating a casual to them acquaintance how , when of he my was own finishing who made his education a company at very one of merry the
' great herself hosp there itals with , a lad the y of truly very modest high quality and womanl , the Hon y request . Mrs . H to be allowed presented to train herself as a thorou < rh nurseBut the medical _gentlemen smelt treason
. , soon " and made , " said the my place casual too acquaintance hot to hold , her " we ! " soon 2 > _Tor contrived was it even to get pretended her out ; th we at
. the she case gave entirel trouble or and offence would in as any it were way ; have that taken would the , of sting course out , have of the altered incident ; but as I , y in , spite of crinoline , and , other unfavorable efall appearances in , still
Indul remote ge a vague of the hope world of some so these unknown gentlemen good seem to b to he women troubled with some a vague same kind fear age , but answering two are to quite my , hope enoug . h I ; could and the give elder many portion more observations instances of your readers of the
can , no doubt , furnish their own supply from their own . As not immense been for the wish tried female to difference ; speak your intellect of correspondent in medical the being training students either admits , in this nor earl or as to y that youth much inquir , I , , e answer of when if the they two that he invariabl talks it sexes has . of never show I the do
, y tial such in vast the powers medical of profession mind and , because intellect such as your an inquiry corresp would ondent but thinks little essen help - the present discussion . One thing is certain , that the blindfolding of one
sex does not enable the other to see more clearly ; what is really good for cisel women that will sort be , of in good the end that , reall they y have good wished for men and , thoug prayed h it for may . not be
prey I am , Ladies , your obedient Servant ,
April 21 st . A . S .
284 Open" Council.
284 OPEN" _COUNCIL .
To Tlie Editors Of The English Woman's J...
To tlie Editors of the English Woman ' s Journal .
Ladies , as liberall I think as you Bluebeard will agre treated e with me Fatima that . public In literature opinion treats artscience our sex almost quite
, y , , , , free every to door write flies novels open , sermons to us ; , we cookery may be books artists , histories , antiquarians , plays , , to heralds go down ; we mines _are like
. . , and whatever any doctors up mount work ; tame ains a ; woman horses we may ; finds stock be chosen for oyster hand fellows beds or ; brain of acclimatize learned onl societies let the her apteryx do ; disagree it well ; in short and ,
now-a-days public opinion will smile aj > proval on , her y activity . Almost every , , wi door th , its I have hostl said , si is hts open behind —not every itand one that ; there ominous is the spot old door of blood kept on fast the locked key , .
All as in g the nursery y g tale . Onl , y the Bluebeard closet has grown into the dissecting room of the hospital . And supposing public opinion braved , and
itliis grim but indispensable portal to the medical profession passed , can we
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/68/
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