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120 HEIiPS TO THE DOCTOR
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+ I Think It Will Be Readily Admitted By...
far and as villages their engagements associations of may women permit who , to shall the devote nursing themselves of the sick , as
if will poor prejudice be in , but their could I do g not hb be orhood speak removed . without A ther self e knowled -deny is abundant ing ge work when generosit of I affirm course y , that this and
forth power a of societ self-sacrifice of nurses among for every our town middle and -cl village ass women in this to country furnish . y
an It may obstacle seem to strange such a that manifestl prejudice y good should -work , be but supposed strange to thoug present h it
beit is no less true than strange . Have we not all of us , both men Do , not and the women whole , been arr t angements aught selfish of ness societ fro y m with our mo some thers trifling ' breast ex s - ?
, himself ception , f or lus h t ra s t e and stomach exemplif and y this his own one maxim ocket ? —Each Is not one success for p
in the pursuit , of self-interest , set forth by example especially , but mankind also even ? by It precept is well , k no t w he n one that g rea thing t clai can m t b e th less e admira tolera t t ed by of
exercise persons of of ordinary a virtue hi character her than and their habits own than and the I can open easi and lim avowed ine y ag
a group of well-meanin g g persons being scared , from the attempt at such an undertaking as I propose by the bitter persecution they
would encounter at the outset . But -we need not dilate upon the obstacles to be overcome until we have made out something like a
_jprzmd It is fac certain ie case that in favor many of our patients scheme die . for want of good nursing
, th the at many er treatment who partiall and y recover that many suffer children their either life long perish for in want their of
tion infancy prop to themselves or sustain permanent and , to their injury mothers for at want the of time the of necessary their entrance
atteninto life . And again , the burden of the care of a sick patient will often fall with overwhelming weiht on one or two relatives who
ruined perhaps by , are the no tri ne al of . the It is stronge perhaps st g , and a lig whose ht matter health that may the be life finall of y a ,
patient sorrow should should be be prolonged saved , and , but that it is his no sojourn light matter in this that world those of
who have to live should be possessed of sound health , that the the physical seeds conditions of disease of should tlie race as far should as possible be made be the utterl best y of rooted , and that out .
For the general interests of the , human race it is , highly expedient that the sick should be cared for in the best manner .
But it is no less for the sake of those to be engaged in the work than for those to be immediatelbenefited bit that I would urge
this matter . I am quite certain y that there are y many women to be found whose life would acquire a dignity and a charm altogether
unkn new , own who would to them gain if a s such olid self an -respect opportunity and self of -reliance active benevolence now wholly
were presented to them , as I project . It may be asked , " What is
ther e now to hinder them from employing themselves in such a ,
120 Heiips To The Doctor
120 HEIiPS TO THE DOCTOR
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/48/
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