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    HARRIOT K. HUNT.- 383

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    America I Have Been With Deep The Ly Lov...

    !¦ ¦ - ; , Qur readers will notice an allusion to Harvard College , and though it refers to a time of much later datewe will take this opportunity

    of saying that Harriot Hunt applied , for admission to the medical lectures held there : on the first lication she was refused ;

    on the second , in 1851 , the subject of app medical education for wpmen had gained much ground with the public , and the authorities students

    consented draw was so . to great We receive lay that great her Miss ; stress but Hunt the on wisel excitement this y and incident quietl of the , y as gentlemen consented proving that to with she

    wished to obtain regular medical instruction , that she had none of professional the spirit of education the quack was about beyond her , her and own that control the irregularity . When she of first her

    posterousl began her absurd work in even 1835 to , make she would an lication have been to be considered received pre into

    y app her any c own ollege responsibility or classes ; , all and she c to ould discard do was " to blisters read , and leeches observ , e and on

    mercury It was . " in October , 1835 , that the two sisters began a professional

    life . Their old mother was then sixty-five years of age , " clear and menced bright , and a life as fraug ever ht watchful with absorbing over her interest children . ; " grasp " Then ing the we com past

    to apply it to the present , and prospectively looking to the future . receive I remember d our vividl first patients y the earnestness . To be sure , the they enthusiasm came along , with very which slowl we y ,

    but every case that did come was a new revelation , a new wonder , a sation new stud had y mucli in itself to and do with by itself . medical Reverence life for and the I human found organi elf - ; mys

    questioning cases of dyspepsia my , liver complaint , and many others , health begging and them life to and tell they me wh did y they tell me had of imposed fearful these abuses drawbacks through i on gr

    norance , passion ; , luxury , and vice . Were not my cases guides and mentors ? We studied with unwearying zeal . When our

    other mother , investi was gating sweetly every asleep case , we that were had reciting been presented our lessons to us throug fco each h

    were the day those , often we thankful did decline that ) till we we had were declined prepared cases to meet ( and them numerous . My

    sister being gifted in the use of her pencil , copied plates . Our which leisure one of surprised hours them . sli There pped many away was of our an like abiding tame moments friends faith , with . about the They use us stamped could , an here enthusiasm not on of under every love

    blossomed stand that barren with beauty technicalities for us ; , freshened ot that the by diseases atmosp of others , with , a fervent wish for their removalus mental life . " * * * Their

    friends very naturally thought , this gave new life embodied a very crazy notion * * * " Had it not been for our mother , how sad would

    this ( the . misconception ) have been . Her experience of life enabled her to foresee the trials which necessarily attended such an

    experiment ; this was a salutary corrective to my enthusiasm .

    Harriot K. Hunt.- 383

    HARRIOT K . HUNT .- 383

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/23/