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820 MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR LADIES.
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I Hate Read With Ditlcii Pleasure A Pape...
I venture to predict that female tact and acuteness _, readiness of qualified apprehension comprehensive for their and instruction conscientiousness duties , as render practitioners a , would class , of after of ladies medicine two infinitel courses , than y of better this any
curriculum yet devised hy college or university could make of the mass of medical students . How long a time , it may be asked , of
would such an education require ? The Misses Blackwell speak four when years it is , the reniemlbered time demanded that with of medical by far men the b majorit y the colleges y of medical ; but
students there is a great want of earnestness and industry , that half their time is wasted in idleness and listless dawdling over their
studies zealous , and that I consider our imag two ined class of l ladies sufficient would be I should older and be years ampy ; nay
greatl more y surprised , if two courses so passed in a single year did not produce well qualified practitioners , incomparably from superior student to life the
majority of newly-fledged doctors as they emerge the at I the ground suppose hospital of no its s one and being will schools unfeminine obj . ect to thi or s indelicate new profession after the for hi ladies gh and on
, well deserved reputation achieved by Miss Florence Nightingale as a nursesince the office of nurse must expose ladies to far more
repulsive prescribing , and for painful the m duties aladies than of their those own involved sex and in children investi . gating Nothing and
can stand in the way of the realisation of these views , except the t of funds to establish an institution , where ladies may secure
wan the of the necessary healing instruction artand it and is opportunities inconceivable for that stud for ying this the purpose practic it e
will be necessary , to make the voyage to America . No very large funds _would be required to bring the matter to the test of experience . ital for the
Nor is it at all necessary to establish a _hospj _^ nrpose , for sible after for all the the relief hosp of itals sickness of the among metropoli the s have poor , done a wid all e field that is is _j still >
osnumb open er for of visiting those who the are sick proper at their objects own of houses charit , y since either a very cannot large be remain at
_tfceir received own into homes the hosp Besides itals it or is by well a natural understood preference that hospitals are
. , unable fromlack of funds to receive great numbers of sufferers on the one hand , and on the other very many are afflicted with
disorders which , render their admission into crowded hospitals very undesirable
and I a may firm therefore conviction . , in , th conclusion at an appeal , be to permitted tho wealth to y express and benevolent a hope and able to
to devote provide themselves the means to the of practice instruction of , the to ladies art of willing healing will not be
long I have wanting abstaine , and d that from the mentionin effort will g the prov practice e eminentl of obstetrics y successful as . a merits fuller
suitable _exposition emp than loyment could for be fem embraced ales , because by this the paper subject , but I pro a pose to
820 Medical Education For Ladies.
820 MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR LADIES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/32/
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