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    .V 148 MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION FOR WOME...

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    health sical © , r and moral compelling nature while * us to pursuing guard against the ends the of sacrifice civilisation of our .

    phy-From the fact , then , that our lives must be directed more by reason than instinctarises at once the necessity for a science of

    health , and that comprehension , of it which will lead to its daily which application is most . Take in letel illustration instinctive the in simp its lest character physical —the need question , that

    of food . Animals comp make y no mistake on this point , being governed to infallibly by men instinct ! It , is but what rare conflicting to find theories women it has the _given heads rise among

    of families among , any clear idea very of what are the requisites for , a healthy table more ; so and with what regard is true to of hi this gher very questions simple of material physical want law , is those still

    famil more intimatel and social y connected relations with growing the intellect out of them and . affections Nothing , and is more the striking y in a wide observation of daily life than the utter insufficiency of simple common sense to secure wise action in these

    things matters . violate Numbers the fundamental of people , of laws very of good health common without sense knowing in other it ;

    and when , they think upon the subject they are just as likely to follow some crude popular theory as to find out the truth .

    sanitary That are progress conventions constantl is needed are calling held in sanitary att ; ention the medical matters to defects profession is widel of y public admitted and and the ;

    private press hygiene , pointing y out the high rate of mortality amongst children essential , to etc . ; but it it is is far that from women being who as generall have the y recognised domestic how life

    of the nation progress in their handsshould realise , their responsibility , and possess In education the knowled as in ge domestic necessary , life to meet the same it . necessity for hygienic

    , , knowled they are women should ge , exists and be it . familiar is Statistic obviousl with s y show a the matter that nature nine of and - great tenths needs importance of of our the teacher great that s

    bod that training y our of its youth systems faculties which of education without is intrusted should to ing be their or reall undul care y suited . It stimulating is to not childhood possible the ,

    natureunless those by whom cramp this work is done y understand the princip , les of health and growth upon which school thousand training should the

    labor rules be based of and healthy . expense Our development school , are gained educatio ; very and n ignores generall the results , in y at a , obtained the cost of with ways physical much ,

    and mental health . that If , there then , it be conditions true that health essential has for its securing science as it well and as that disease every- ;

    are , the their day life social should position naturall _Tbe , based are arises important upon how its is laws agents this ; knowled if in , moreover this practical to , women Ibe widel work , by y , question ge

    diffused _among them y ? At , present there exists no method of

    .V 148 Medicine As A Profession For Wome...

    . V 148 MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION FOR WOMEN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/4/