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FEMALE MEDICAL COLLEGE AT PENNSYLVANIA. ...
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It Attendance Appears, Upon From The The...
" From year to year the number of ladies engaged in the various study of towns not medicine send and cities has reliable we been are frequentl steadil lad y hysician y increasing receiving ? * , the and ladies inquiry from in '
the ' Can fulness you of time us a are here . y p From homes ' So in , crowded , cities and in quiet country you places , from reli different ious denominations States , and
from under the influence of various g _^ you " None have been need broug tell ht that by one this common is only a impulse spasmodic . excitement , you
and that the work is unsuited to your womanly nature . The but contradiction fromthe deeps comes of , not onl r own y from souls your —from observation those still of recesses society ,
, you long wher guards e burned ardent his altar , desires and fires been for guarded development as sacredl and for y as usefulness the Persian have
society " As this an advance movement . toward has s been a hig hailed her and by purer noble condition mindsnot of
only upon , this side of the Atlantic , but also in Europe . , Sir . John Bowring , —in a letter to a relative and extract corresponden echoes t the in
this sentiment ioneering country of into , who others man has when kindl ions he y furnished says where , Your they the will American fix their , — women standard are
with p ** " honour to them y reg selves and benefit to their race . This medical movement of theirs is worthy of all encouragement , and It is
willI hope , be crowned with abundant success . a step not from , but this towards movement decency and decorum naturall . ' from the influence
" Indeed springs y and of those which free , it princi is now ples so upon terribl which vindicating this government before was the founded quaking ,
y created despots equal of the , and world endowed . The by sublime their Cr doctrin eator with e ' that the 7 all inalienabl men are e and the of happinessnot because
beings ri they ghts belong , of and life the , to liberty common favored , classes childre pursuit , n but of God because , could they not , are be received human
because woman intelligentl as more y wel by spontaneous l as the that masses of man and , without less , and constr leading quickening ained to development a more the mind natural of of _^
society "In . the mortal struggle through which this bleeding land is
m becoming entas well dedicated as others anew tendin to freedom g to enlarge and justice the , activities this move of
woman , has received a fresh impetus . American women are Numbers working _aroused , as for of our they the truest never exposed and have loveliest soldier been or h before ave the alread , appealing and y all sacrificed classes freedman their are . and
thousands lives to their more devoted is thrown labors the in necessity hospitals of and earning camps , their upon own
Female Medical College At Pennsylvania. ...
FEMALE MEDICAL COLLEGE AT PENNSYLVANIA . 333
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/45/
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