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141 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To the Editor of the English WomarCs Jou...
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141 Open Council.
141 OPEN COUNCIL .
To The Editor Of The English Womarcs Jou...
To the Editor of the English _WomarCs Journal , " Union" is _Strength . "
Can "Women enter the Medical Profession ? Madam , This question is certainly of daily increasing importance to the health of
the human raceand I would endeavor to discuss it in that spirit which alone becomes it , : one of candour and of calmness . There will be many who will at once assail the idea with the shafts of ridicule , or the instruments of persecution ; for this we must be prepared ; satire but " and truth against all
the In the world present ; " to elicit state the of medical truth we scienc must e dare there both is a schism of considerable persecution . influence still widening since the days of Hahnemann , and all that has been written against Homoeopathy only shews that there was and certain is " claims certainly
" something beliefand in has it ; " acquired that it certain possessed reliable and testimonies still possesses of its efficacy . Men on truth of genuine , is discovered talent are in always hysics men or the who investi lication gate of for medicines themselves they : if do a new not
papp , hearing stupidly of resolve all the to facts shut their that it eyes is to not it ; a they truth do but not a fallacy determine ; they without do not a refuse to meet a man in consultation because he is a Homoeopathist ; they feel which affect
it the their life that positive is in duty their hands to their and patients to weih to well hear in reasoning the balance of their may experisystem ence the to op their inion own s of one The who medical , has treated profession g illness now successfull being divided y on a into different great
. parties , both of which are strong in their creed , the one of the atomic theory tities of medicine it is to , the be inferred other of that the necessity the progress of its of administration the art of healing in larger has not quan yet
numerous greater attained , progress any and thing intelli will like gent be certainty made the -minds in ; the it are is science also which to of are be restoring turned inferred to and that the preserving stud the y more , the whose station
health in life . . affords On this them ground the means the stud of y liberal of medicine education by women whose tastes direct them the of them human present to also the to suffering state attainment the acquirement of , public seems of p , _oiDinion h to ysiolog of say knowled the ical how least knowled shall ge that of the it ge shall , foundation , hi and ghl tend , whose y desirable , to be the hearts laid miti . prompt for But gation the in
ing accomp proposition lishment , that of the a Sisterhood object in view be , formed ? I would for the humb cultivation ly submit of annual the the science follow sub - ;
and thatin order to lay the foundation of the community , an - the scription _undertaking , of one guinea . A library be made should by each be formed lady to , the and preliminary a professor expenses engaged of to know
lectureand simultaneously the study of Latin , and of all other classic - led carried ge considere , on with d such indispensable enquiries into to the chemistry education and of natural male students science as , should are con be - "
nected visiting with of the the sick healing poor art for . a With pertain these period studies of every should and year be self , connected in alternate the in
parties , thus gaining experience in the phases of disease , -training the An treatment important of new the element complaints would peculiarl be infused y incident into society to children by such and a women Sister- .
hood of that their , many , and services , members after it in had of relieving the been faculty in them operation would of the acknowled a immense short time ge amount and , it is avail of to labor be themselve expected which s
th ulterior ey now pecuniary , with difficulty recompense , get of through such female at our practitioners public dispensaries must be . waited The for as the certain result of the conscientious application of their talents .
Many and for persons other , reasons who now mi hesitate ght avail to ask themselve advice s because of the miti of its gated great charges expense of , ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/69/
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