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354 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To The Mditors Of The English Woman's Jo...
the " offices Sir , —A of great men . change For my is coming part I believe over social that life no office ; women is unlawful are seizing to them upon ,
excepting that of the sacred ministry . " I see no objection to a woman being a Secretary of State or Prime female Minister suffrage . I go . beyond The promise the Chartists to obey , and a husban ask for d would universal not adult be binding male and in
other than domestic matters . It would be obligatory in the same manner upon " There women is generall no necessity y as it for now alteration is upon the of titles Queen of . professions and trades .
The titles will henceforth be regarded as of common gender . In the x Liturgy of the Church of England , the Queen is styled Governor , not . Groverness . In the same way , a woman would be styled a Professor , a
Bachelor of Arts or of Medicine , a Master of Arts , a Doctor of Laws or of Medicine " The term , & c . bachelor offers no difficulty . It is not a word essentially of
the masculine gender ; ( see Latham's English Language ;) moreover , as applied to academic use , it has no relation to sex . The term master requires to be considered in the same liht as governor .
" In . future works on English g grammar , all titles must be marked as belonging to the common gender . There is no difficulty in this . The Latin word homo is of the common gender .
" Some persons object to women entering the medical profession , on the grounds of indelicacy . I cannot see that there is more liberty taken by the indelicate physician . than Women by the are nurse ministering ; yet no angels one dares and to are st not yle the the less office so for of being nurse
skilled in the art of iEsculapius . There , are surgical manipulations that would shock the feelings of women ; but that which would be indelicate in a lay woman would be justifiable and decorous in a professional woman .
The same obtains among men . It is the science and art of medicine that injury confers to upon the moral men the feelings right to on use the means part of to the detect surgeon disease , and in women without , without a sense
of shame being suffered by ihe subject of the examination . Medicine can confer the same immunity upon women in the practice of the profession . " ( Signed ) F . J . B ., M . D . London and Edinburgh "
In addition to the reiteration of the preceding sentiments , I am desirous of making some remarks on the subject . The science and art of medicine is one and indivisible ; it must be studied in its entirety , so that a thorough
knowledge of every department may be obtained . A medical practitioner he may * subsequentl must be practicall y cultivat acquainted e one branch with if every it be part desirable of medicine to specialize . The unity , but
of medicine has ever been y acknowledged ; it is a verity founded on the unity of the laws of life . There is no objection to the admission of women to the profession of medicineand it maybe left to themselves individuallto
practice every department , or to select one or more branches . But whilst y freedom is granted to women , shackles must not be placed upon men . Men are not to be debarred from the practice of obstetrics , otherwise there would be a
break in the unity of medicine . Respecting the medical education of women there are two methods in use , nameleducation in common with menand separate education . It appears
to me y that , separate education is most , suitable for the majority of men and women , just as we deem it advisable for the sexes to be separated at school ; but there are exceptional instances of women who prefer men ' s society ,
knowing how to use without abusing it ; such women do indeed possess extraordinary power over men , so that levity and rudeness disappear from amongst them like the morning mist in the presence of the rising sun .
custom * The ary pronoun in natural he is history used in and the theology common . gender in this place after the method that is
354 Open Council.
354 OPEN COUNCIL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/66/
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