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276 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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1. Thirteenth Annual Announcement Of The...
niation . The success ¦ with which the clinical department has met during" the first year of its establishment is in every way encouraging .
The hospital is under the management of ladies _, and among these we are glad to see the name of Mrs . Beecher Stowe . Dr . Marie
E . Zakrzewska is the Resident Physician . The number of patients in the hospital during the first seven
months was sixty-seven—Patients received . . . . . . . . . 45
Children born in the house 22 67
123 patients were in all treated , and 186 prescriptions furnished free of charge .
In appealing for further aid and support , the lady managers addtion cc Let come it not strictl be forgotten under the , that head simp of le articles objects of of use mental in a hos gratifica _23 ital - . ' y
Flowers , pictures , and books for the patients' library , will lighten many a pain and sorrowand hasten recovery in a large majority
of cases . " , Dr . Marie E . Zakrzewskathough she took her medical degree in
America , had before acquired , great distinction , both as a teacher and practitioner . She was at one time chief _accoiicheur in the
Royal Hospital , Berlin , and _" attained this high rank over many female competitors in the same branch , there being- more- than a
hundred in the city of Berlin , who threaten , by their acknowledged excellencyto monopolize the obstetric art . " She was also for some
, years Resident Physician in the New York Infirmary for Women and Children . Her Introductory Lecture is clear and forcible , and
commences with a sensible appeal to women to consider well the motives which induce them to step into new vocations , and more
especially into that of the medical profession . and cine " decided ; Tlie and onl an y convi earnest motives ction desire th of at an this inb and orn profession love taste of and scientific permits talent investi its for votaries the gati practice on are , concerning the of medi clear
all the its hum relations an being with , in the its surrounding construction , world its condition . ... of health and disease in form ceed " Besides apar To t this of these our belong , affections there s are ! some nature ath qualifications not , without sentimentalizing which yet , no to practitioner be mentioned ath can but , which suc the
severing sympath . , y controlling which never every betrays symp action weakness y that , it may or timidity not become , which rashness symp is firm . y , Modesty perthe and practitioner secretiveness , _, and sobriety which I mention unselfishness here chiefl are other y because virtues I much know desired well into in what and how often
se and self quences in throug temptations any h , of this those these , p , social hysician who points position could s ; are and be constantl can tempted I also be y hav obtained to led e ab , had andon , occasion by these being princi to untrue pecuniar see ples the to . y " one gain con ' - s ,
The lecturer rapidly reviews the whole history of obstetrics from
the days of Hippocrates downwards , showing that little was done
276 Notices Of Books.
276 _NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/60/
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