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    MEDICINE AS A PBOiFESSION FOB WOMENV 155

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    by entific men stud would and not practical do . Those activity women so who different pursued from this woman life of ' s sci do - -

    mestic and social y life and yet so closel , y connected with it , could not fail to regard these avocations froni a fresh stand-pointand to see

    , in a new to her light ; and the noble though possibiliti they may es b which e few in the position ber , they of woman will be

    opens enou general gh to may form draw a new in and element apply , another to their channel own needs by which the active women life in of

    the age . which We have the opening now briefl of y the considered profession the of most medicine important to women grounds is on an

    obj claim ect upon of valu the e public to society for aid in g in enera its accomp l , and lishment consequentl . y Let having us now a

    practical the state The bedside briefl first , y i . requirement what should

    g thoug equall iven h y in perfectl required connection , distinct for the with more in a character hosp limited ital . training and This obj essential ect of the from nurse condition that , which of the is ,

    y physician , agrees with it in this one point of its practical nature * degre In Europ e is e four , the shortest and period at least of ten stud months y required of each for year a physician must be 's

    years , spent comprises in attendance not only lectures upon the on course the different of instruction branches . of This medicine course , etc

    in p but itals the thoroug laboratory is also h practical required , gardens , stud where , y museums of , chemistry for , several etc . , ical botany Attendance years , , the anatomy This on student the , hos ital is . - ,

    occupied with subordinate medical and surgduty . hosp illustrative training school can is the confer of it foundation , not a degree a substitute of that their has for education not it . attached In , Eng and to land the it , a lectures no hosp medical ital are of

    as as many that of as St one . Bartholomew hundred beds ' s . , of And London in many , the of college the best departm schools ent ,

    will only number forty or fifty students , who perform all the astice sistants extensive of ' ei duty g and hty of thoroug thousand a hosp h ital patients an education of five annuall hundred is not y . legall beds In America , y with required an , thoug out yet prac h all so

    -, students who attain any standing in the profession pass through essentially the same course , because nothing short of it will enable

    them to meet the responsibilities of practice with success . struction as The it always chief There difficult has been is y not , in the in the Am impossibilit way erica of a women sing y of le students hosp obtaining ital at or practical present dispensary in is - ,

    . to which women can gain admittance , except the limited opportunities that have been obtained in connection with the _ISTew York

    Infirmary . This difficulty met us during our own studies , and we

    were obliged to spend several years in Europe to obtain the

    Medicine As A Pboifession Fob Womenv 155

    MEDICINE AS A _PBOiFESSION FOB WOMENV 155

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/11/