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To The Editors Of The English Woman*S Jo...
• Physicians , which , by the way , your correspondents usually style tliem , they th mi at ght before " see a their man way takes , " to as thi the s expression the hiher branch goes ; but of the it must profession be remembered he must
have had a long and expensive , education g , he must at all events be , supposed to to keep possess him superior in the abilities position , and of last a gentleman , not least , till he he must becomes have sufficient known money to his
medical brethren and the public generally . He is also expected to hold some that public ladies appointment with . _jSTow shall , as betake I do not themselves imagine that to professional it is contemp work lated
young money , there remains nothing for those without it but to join the already overcrowded ranks of general practitioners . That they are overcrowded , is , I think , universally admitted . "We will say nothing of the multiplicity of
brasswh plates y do always so many before young our eyes medical ; but men if there fail is in work obtaining to be practice found in , and this way turn , her to emi medical gration . Well education as ! in _np the is- , aller name to possess ? of We wonder a will good suppose where constitution is our she daug , to and ht beg er average in to to have practise abilities comp ? leted and An
army energy appointment is out of the question , ; employment in the mail packet or has emigrant decided service that equall woman y ' so s bodil ; and few strength , I think is , equal except to your that corresp of man ondent would , con who
demn her to the hard work , the y long rides by day , and often by , cold snowy nights , which are requisite to enable the young country surgeon to do little more than earn his daily bread .
" Hapless the man , whom hard fates urge on To practise as a country surgeon !"
Necessarily , then , our young Doctor must betake herself to towns , and begin , as her brethren around her are doing , with small fees , picked up in poor localities ; and till these localities become different from what they now
are , would any man entertain for a moment very the idea of a lady belonging to Mm visiting them at night , and alone ; and yet this of necessity must be the case .
Far be it from me to maintain that many women would not make excelfor lent them doctors , and . that All I with hold such is , that odds in against this country them in at the least strugg there le— is odds no dem result and
ing partly from the laws of nature , and partly from the constitution of society , it would be impossible for them to undertake their share of professional work , even if it were given to them . That such would ever be the
case I very much doubt . The office of the family doctor is looked upon as maj almost ority sacred of women , and so would much quite is this as the soon received entrust idea thems , that elves I believe to the the care great of a
medical man as to that of one of their own sex . Sympathy and tenderness will are not withhold always them desirable and yet ; and retain in their cases practice where they . We are believe so , few that medical the desire men .
for such demonstrations , is strongest in young girls . We have heard of a adding boarding fuel school to the of young flame b ladies y the all injudicious seized with disp " hysteri lay of a that ; mistress sympath and y so teachers much
valued by one of your correspondents . The entire school was cured in a few minutes It is the by difference the firmness of sex and of apparent strength severit and of y of disposition an eminent which medical ives man the .
one sex so much over , the other . , Who does not know , the ease g with which a lady influences power boysand who has not felt how much more readily a ,
great exercise lad an will influence submit over to his the mother minds than of women to his that father one ; and of themselves vice-versa , men "will never do ; and how desirable is that influence , when we consider that mind
and body are twin sisters , arid that the one seldom _suffers without the other in a greater or less degree becoming affected ?
task In — conclusion for it is always , I must easy apolog to show ize for the a letter difficulties which of to an me undertaking has been an when easy
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/68/
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