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    MEDICAL EDUCATION FOB LADIES. 317

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    ranch , as is needed for navigation ; and he would be considered to have bid adieu to corainon sensewho should maintain that every

    practical sailor should be able to , calculate eclipses or measure the parallax In point of the of fact fixed the stars medical . profession admit the distinction

    and the inference , I am aiming at , by making a wide difference in the examinations respecting anatomy for the physician and the

    surgeon The anatomy . of the accomplished physician goes very little

    deeper than that which may be readily reached in the way I indicat With e and respect by femal to Botany e students - Zoology . and Scientific Chemistryit is

    precisel ladies y the same , except having , that obtained we , may it observe as part of of their the first ordinary , , that

    many educationfar possess more , knowledge of botany than the majority of medical men , . Except so far as it is a most useful exercise of the

    faculty with medical of observation practice . , botany And althoug is very h loosel in my y connecte own private d in any opinion way

    the future advance of the art of curing diseases will more depend no upon one Organic will have Chemistry the hardihood than any other to pretend of tlie that ¦ underl it is ying necessary ' sciences to ,

    tence study would science be very to deep hold ly that to be most a successful men now ph in ysician practice , as are such wholl a pre y - h

    will disqu do alified well for to their make duties use of . their Both leisure male in and acquiring female p this ysici most ans stand

    beautiful and valuable science , but with respect to it they on the groundThe aim of these remarks is to controvert the

    same . qualified opinion of to the practise Misses the Blackwell art of healing , that , ladies must , enter in order the to ordinary become students in

    medical schools and associate themselves with the hearing lectures and attending patients in hospitals , undergo

    examinations It miht , take have out shaken diplomas their of faith comp in eten this cy course , etc . if they liad duly g

    considered its effects , as actually witnessed , on medical men themselves . Without wishing to disparage the profession , or to raise havin handit

    be circulated up admissible enemies of unnecessaril the to quote medical a y few journals to passages the cause in reference from we one e to of this the point most , . may widel yet y

    , its S curriculum peaking of is the framed College on of tlie Surgeons most it imp says _loilosop , In liical the first princi p p lace les , . in the membershiof

    The most illiterate and ignorant take refuge p the world College to understand of Surgeons that . pathology The Council is of deliberatel little consequence y give the , requiring

    studentno talents , no honct-Jicle study , no real and serviceable knowledge ; the college gives its members no status / ' Tlie examination to is said

    to ad cap be in tandum a wholl few y weeks , superficial valueless and substituted , as got a -by test -rote of for set qualification the of answers results of may three practise be crammed or ; four an

    up years' study .

    Medical Education Fob Ladies. 317

    MEDICAL EDUCATION FOB LADIES . 317

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/29/