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    " FEMALE MEDICINE." 339

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    In sustaining its assunxption _,, the Gazette rings the changes was upon tly a the tim proud e word when , but good which delicacy h unfi ysical , "— ts a trait heal for t in h medical was woman deemed prac of wh tice a i somewha ch . we Ther are e t

    gross characteristic in any p woman ; and there is reason to believe that women invented ingenious lans for making

    themselves look physically " many delicate . " That period , thank Heaven , has sed but there remains a corresponding idea that

    pasaway ; moral cc delicacy trait "—in Doubtless the medical wha sense t society —is associates an admirable with mental the words and

    . , bu u delica t it is te cer " t and aint _" indelica t in the te sense , " are alluded respect t ivel o it y means good sickliness and evil ;

    of mind and charac , ter . To such weak , invalid , or delicate made minds i , t —in men be impure or women bu , t - — to the health facts charac of nature ters , as G vi od has

    minds the , may ' facts of nature _; are sacredwhether y they relate gorous to sex or to of the functions of the human , bod .

    Nor any does the study and knowledge of this y whole class of facts the demand Maker masculini of Woman ty more has assi than gned femininit her here y . We and presume that He does that

    not require assistance from man in keep sp , her in it . There consti are _according many tuted ly male for also such functions we she find has in for no which t been inclina she phy is t sical ion not l t o or fitted men beyond , tall and y

    her constitution ; . , As we do not find woman trying t o cultivate a beard & cwe may presume that her inclination and her

    constitution , , go hand in hand . It may be a source of great abhor distress the to male lancet p hysicians much as r tha the t woman razortha wa t s not facul so made ties as were to

    has but not , l as in imi poin o t ften ed t of been divin fact in , the her aut hori lace tory ty in of a woman the h , direction ician has by shown of the medicine bed tha - t side she ;

    as a on the throne p . Where p God ys has set no barriers , woman queen will have little to fear from those set by medical bigots . , We are not sure that there is thinso rofound in medical

    knowledge that it is to be supposed any beyond g the p intellectual range so of sound much f be acul grante ties , — d femal , women e or ma ma y le , , — for industriousl the rest , be supposed applied . to If

    priori practitioners liave alleged es reason , pecial erroneous is for qua toward supposing l lifications y perh effeminacy aps that , for that the such ; the certainl practice would tendency y . th be er the It e of is has case the more than been best d

    linit that with To female attend practitioners the weakened the tendency troubled would anxious be to patients

    mascuand y th . eir families upon , would be , it would , seera _, , the last thing to ,

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    " Female Medicine." 339

    " FEMALE MEDICINE . " 339

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/51/