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    384 hMsMot k; hunt.

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

    " Our "business gradually increased . One cure opened the way for other easesand an enforcement of dietetic rulesbathing-, and so

    forth , soon placed , on a permanently healthy platform those , who attended us . " It stands to reason that Harriot Hunt ' s honesty and tact must

    liave prevented her in the first instance from accepting" cases requiring * ical treatmentor such diseases as had grown beyond the

    reach surg of sanitary measures , , or she could not have succeeded as she did . But there are few ailments which are not now attacked Iby the

    best male physicians with the natural weapons furnished by the law's of healthrather than by the phial and the lancet . " Soon

    opportunities were , offered us to visit country towns . I accepted them cheerfully , my sister remained at home . From these journies I

    gathered much , so xnany ' given- up cases ' were presented to my notice ! also chronic diseases of an aggravated character . These

    last were opportunities for friendly _relatioiis and examinations , _htit not cases to be accepted _professionally . My field of observation broadened

    -wonderfully : if hospitals , closed their doors to woman ,. except as patient and liufse , the public were beginning * to perceive the

    inconsistency , nay , injustice of the act . "We had , before long * , patients the from community the highly . -cultivafced * _** My , mother the delicate always , and obj the ected sensible to our portion practising s of

    midwifery : her reasons were satisfactory . In this early stag _* e of woman in the profession there was no physician to speak one

    encouraging word to us , or to whom we could apply . So alone , unaided by we established _oiir own code of lawsand wisely concluded

    not any to , visit patients at their homes ; for we knew , if we did , doctors would say , as we were women , that we were insinuating * ourselves

    into families , and weakening * confidence in the faculty . To remain in our house and receive calls was the best opening' for the life in this

    city . The arrangement was productive of much g _* ood to physician as well as to patient . Many home-bound , chamber-ridden , used for years

    to medical calls , would make a desperate effort , saying * , ' Live or die , we will and hear wliat these strang-e women have to say to us : '

    go that very resolution was the dawn of light , the beginning * of new life to themand a fit preparation for obedience to those physical laivs which

    _zve insis , ted u _% ) on as absolutely necessary to a cure . Many chronic cases presented themselves ; also diseases of children , in curing * which my

    sister always excelled me . Occasionally we visited a patient who was confined to her bed ; but we found too often that there was

    so much opposition to the attendance of a woman as physician among * the friends of the invalids , that the good of our visits was

    neutralised . We knew by experience all about these states of mind , and we _resjDected the sufferer ' s position .

    " We paid the mortgage on our house in Fleet Street at this period . Who Could , or would , forg _* et tliat thrill of joy as with means

    in hand we entered the residence of William Parker ! We had Lived _carefully , economically , but not meanly ; and thus w © were

    enabled to gratify this strong * desire .

    384 Hmsmot K; Hunt.

    384 _hMsMot k ; hunt .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 384, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/24/