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OPEN COUNCIL. 285
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To Tlie Editors Of The English Woman's J...
_Relieve tliat tlie female M . D . would leave behind her there every especial thr drawback h life to have her success been kindl ? Those and wisel which y set must forth , in b most y a ph cases ysician , attend in your her oug y
last number . , I can add nothing that would clench his arguments ; they embod press y the on this views subject and feeling . At the s which same many time , int there elligent appears , delicate to be who - a minded social had want women which been
extheir mi staff of g the ht of natural be other nurses admirabl sex instincts above , would y supp the be hav menial lied so e developed b practised y class the very . - th Power p at h class ysic we , con of patience mi women g amove ht have , tact . Wh a , , reall and y should sympath y they superior not y , not thes
wanted all the to hig the h qualities full as much which in the make nurse up as the in g the ift doctor of healing ? Most ; are medical men e trained In large " practice nursing friend have cases , " as head on their in the list sick where -room the , remunerated with services a servant of a or thoroug common from hly
• nurse the question under her of remuneration , would be both , it seems appreciated highly and desirable that some . A one part female How member often of every ill middle spared class guinea famil a y week should besides be regularl board y has trained to be for paid nursing to a .
professional an nurse - , because in a houseful , of women there , is not one who can know supply the those heroine cares can which cover the up her patient harp absolutel , lay her y embroidery requires notice ! a In side But fiction , and where start , we
the up help a suffering but read little y-made to towards be Florence soothed it . Ni Ladies is g terribl htingale , have y real at we half , these not an all hour impromptu of who ' us s would known volunteers . have some ladl sick can - where the wifedaughtermother evengy
room iven her own life for , that of , the aye , sufferercould , not wash and shift the g , many patient so much sad properl as stories a comfortable y , of coul middle d not cup -class spread of sick gruel a -rooms p ? laster I wh believe , make ere pai medical a n poultice was aggrav men , or could ated prepare and tell
• all danger deficiencies heightened in our by nursing own especial of the province amateur , before unhand we y sort prepare . Let to us pass supp , as ly some One h would branch have say of , let beyond medicine it sli it . our out grandmothers of our hands considered Any ladliving especiall in y the their country own ,
mi thoug ght become we proficient p in this with little cost . beyond y time and painstaking . I art this refer . village She to knew the an practical old lady herb , knowled the in relic the ge of district of a vegetable bygone the generation properties medicines , of who . the I practised remember root , leaves this m , every ,
its Moliere flow hi er g s hest , ' its s draper virtue growth , . " g , ive and Being her the wares the exact wife to time of her a comfortable when friends less , at in for the her money farmer service own words , , but of she all did her , ab it not was simp ut , her like " les at ,
It distill would ations be , confections difficult to , exaggerate & c , were not the the good this kind-hearted woman o did in . quite three miles from the nearest doctor u Take your child to
Mrs doctor a village . it as , " well he would as I can say and to many charge a mother you nothing , as he into . went the his bargain rounds . " " she Onl 'll y
yesterday her ointment this same for burns surgeon , and said scalds to me were , when better speaking than of mine Mrs . they , were "Wiry so ,
s ; old admirabl soul y dressed made up it . every Then day , when for two the years clerk . ' s wife I wouldn could had 't a be meddle cancer , the that with doctor good
itthoug went ointment ht on , — , , bandage recalling " When , I dressing case began after to , it practise case was , all and as here his _perfect , forty concluding as -five years remark . " back So , is there worth was all a hardlwithout good woman of this sort in it . They are
y now a parish Mrs . was some the last of themand it ' s a bad job for the poor that gone ; , there among I listened is us nobod my to y sisters my to com old revive e friend in their this , thinking p useful lace . " order why , should and graft not the some stud of y the of workers medical
< _footany on , the patience , , kindliness , and skill of these old-fashioned herbalists .
Open Council. 285
OPEN COUNCIL . 285
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/69/
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