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    156 MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION FOR WOMEN,

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    facilities we needed . Even there , no provision is made for the admission of womenIbut there are so many great hospitals in both

    London and Paris that , only those distinctly connected with medical schools are crowded with students . There are many large

    institutions attended by distinguished physicians , comparatively little can _frequented , if Ihe by will them give , the and time in these and patience a lady , - , with find good good introductions opportunities ,

    for This study trouble . some and expensive method is still the only Tray in

    which a woman can obtain anything- that deserves to be called a medical education , but it is evidently beyond the means of the

    majority of women . The instruction that they have hitherto been able to obtain in the few medical schools which have received them

    has been purely theoretical . It consists simply of courses of lecturesthe students being rigorously excluded from the hospitals

    of the city , , which are only open to men . Some three hundred women have attended lectures in these schools , the majority of

    been them teachers being intelli had they gent not young chosen women this , profession who would . They probabl enter y have the

    schools with very little knowledge of the amount and kind of preparation winters in the necessary prescribed , supposing studies that they by will spending be qualified two or to beg three in

    prac graduall college tice , y and and work that attempt their by gaining way alone to experience and success unaided . in It practice is the not work until itself of they they practice leave will

    that they , realise how , utterly insufficient , their education is to enable them to acquire and support the standing of a

    physician . Most of them , discouraged , having spent all their money , abandon the profession ; a few gain a little practical knowledge

    formed and strugg of le women into a as second hysicians -rate position under . such No circumstances judgment can . be It

    ¦ would be evidently an inj p _ustice to measure their capacity for such occupation by their actual success , when all avenues to the necessary

    instruction are resolutely closed to them . Realising the necessity of basing any system of instruction for

    • women on actual practice , we resolved , seven years ago , to lay the foundation of such an institution as was needed . A number

    of well-known citizens expressed their approval of the undertaking , and kindly consented to act as trustees . We then took out

    a charter for a practical school of medicine for women . This plan was founded upon those of European hospital schools . It is as

    follows : To a hospital , of not less than one hundred beds , lectureships are to be attached , for the different branches of medical wards

    science , with clinical teachers to give instruction in the . The students should be connected with it for four years , and should serve as assistants in the houseand in out-door practice .

    , Amongst the professorships attached to the hospital should be one of sanitary science , of which the object is to give instruction on

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    156 Medicine As A Profession For Women,

    156 MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION FOR WOMEN ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 156, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/12/