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HELPS TO THE DOCTOR. 121
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+ I Think It Will Be Readily Admitted By...
manner ? " This question will be readily answered by those who have reflected upon the vast increase of power which we gain
. what throug is practicall co-operation y the ; there same thing many apparen difficul tly ties insu insuperable perable—to — an or
isolated individual , which altogether , vanish before a well-organized band .
We will supj > ose that some dozen or score of young and middleaged women , some few being childless "wives , some confirmed
spinsters , others marriageable maidens , with perhaps an occasional ma on tron by t , either exigencies stimulated of an by ep the id fame emic , of or Miss influenced Nightingale the by some , or of ur ot g the ed r
m sick otive . s Some , form of themselve them will s into doubtless an organization have had for experience care in the business—theirs of course will be the care of the more serious and
difficult cases—while inexperienced members will make it their business to acquire experience as speedily as possible , but without
w allow ould ing be their a matt _unskilfolness er of no to t s difficu ubject lt the y . patient A case to being danger before . This the
society winch required constant grea attention but not constant exercise of skilltwo or three of the junior members would relieve each other
in the , mere watching , while the occasional attention of the experienced _nxirsetwo or three times each daywould insure the
application of the , proper treatment . A young , woman would soon show how far she . could be relied on for the accurate fulfilment of specific
directions . If these ladies had but an average share of intelligence and information , and if they were possessed of the true spirit of
cooperation , which implies , above all things , an entire absence of jealousy from the , they experienced would soon nurse form who themselve could supp s into ly a the gradation doctor's of place ranks at — a
, pinch , down to the mere novice—and ? the members of each rank would For soon those find members their appropriate who took work themselves . their full share of upon
workrobust health would be above all things necessary ; and though their vi occupation gorous , engagements constitution of the mind mi , gjit yet , and sometimes I the confidentl open be y air believe severel exercise y would that try which ing the render even would energetic to this be a
manner necessitated of life by more the healthful discharge to of them their than duties the , ordinary sedentary habits of womenAt the same timeit will not be necessary
actually to exclude . from the organization , persons of weak health , as they will be able to discharge the lighter departments of the
dut Finall y . I wouldobserve that the studof medicine would almost y
necessaril y y , find its , way to some extent amongst the members of of such the societies science , would and probabl become y a , in condition course of of time admission , a certain to full knowled member ge
ship . It would also be an almost necessary consequence that a more or less numerous class of female practitioners would , in process
VOL . VIII . K
Helps To The Doctor. 121
HELPS TO THE DOCTOR . 121
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/49/
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