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    OPEN COUNCIL. 139

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    _ 4. . To The ^Editors Of Tjie English W...

    • gone suited demanded throug for the of h the kind the practitioner preliminary of work , ? vary An course ing affirmative and of Instruction uncertain answer to In _tliey these every are queries way afterward , that must is s

    surely depend upon something more stringent than the dogmatic opinion of any writer .

    Those who have much to do with , medical students will confirm the obserprevious vation , that training their that success they depends have received in a large . The measur intellectu e upon al trainin the amount g of the of

    pared to girl train oug for ht the a therefore profession student to for . be The his assimilated earnest career and should to persistent that onl of the be in boy tellectual a continuation , if she lab is or to necessary of be an pre alo - - y

    gous no direct work connexion commenced with long Ph before ysiology . , , Latin Chemistry and Greek , Materia and Medica Mathematics , Therapeu have

    ticsand the other courses which the medical student must pass through ; but a every thoroug , lecturer h preliminary knows the schooling different , and power one with wlio has which not been a boy equall who has y fortunate enjoyed ,

    thing grapples but with continuous the subjects hard intellectual belonging to work his profession can train . the Think doctor not . Put that aside anymedical all sentimentalisni study if you regarding like , the anatomy question and Is some not to of the be less shirked attractive , whether parts the of

    mental constitution of the female is suited for the kind of labor unavoidably medical necessary Inquiry ' , ? For and unless practice she can , she cope will with in the men race in of all life the necessari various l branches y go to the of

    wall Supposing ; and the the strugg difficulties le , which of the will student be unavoidable ' s life surpassed , must , you be then to the come stronger to the . all troubles its exaggerations and difficulties contains of Incip much ient practice that is . true The regarding " Diary of a the Physician difficulties , " with of

    establishing a practice , in every branch of the profession . Would women be fare suited of to life cope and with still thi maintain s kind their of difficulty womanhood , and be ? Or fitted would to undergo circumscrib the war e - you

    listen to and rocks our limit to upon meeting the their , long which practice of list that toug of , excellent her painful so that vessels they cases charity founder mi of g , men ht the be but worn Medical able too out to often B in avoid enevolent the ? Come strugg the Fund shoals le with of , life and and me

    whole widows world left unprovided is and for , whose children talent destitute and , by medical Is circumscribed men to whom b the no , conventional or other open , limits . If sucli is the case energy it must be shown that there y

    Is a great measure of success in store for a new , class of practitioners who Into have dangerous to be created paths , before , where we they should would be meet justified with in difficulties tempting young on all women sides ,

    greater But assuming even than my are views now of encountered the intellectu by al men fitness . of women for the medical profession sical capacity , to be ? Can erroneous we deny , what that answer the general Is there delicacy to the question of females as to is their a serious

    phyweather bar to an ? Are occup there ation not which physical necessitates disqualifications exposure It is which at all are hours insurmount to make and in able all ,

    special and to which allusion , in ? a periodical There is no like branch the present of the , medical unnecessary profession in which more it is

    all not hours more and or less seasons necessary . We will to be assume able to th obey at there the is summons no difficulty of the in public regard to at the

    tive mental dictates calibre of and a ph qualifications ysical character ; surel . And y it supposing is impossible it were to deny proposed impera to limit - the climactericwhat

    a a the continuance rare practice combin of ation of medicine those , of faculties studies to ladies which and who opportunities had had necessaril passed would commenced grand be necessary at an to earlier insure , y

    period of life , when the energies of mind and body rendered the acquisition of Allow such various me to knowled from ge these possible desultory . remarks on the general aptitude of pass

    Open Council. 139

    OPEN COUNCIL . 139

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 139, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/67/