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    MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR LADIES. 319

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    structed ladies would not be far better tlian men , inore useful to the imblicand ministers of moral and social improvement . To say

    nothing , - of exceptional cases , -where medical men have abused the confidence of their patients and clone violence to female modesty and

    delicacy , I am certain that women , from their shrinking to reveal fully to their medical attendant all the particulars of the malady ,

    not unfrequently suffer secretly and greatly , from causes which a female How p then hysician are ladies could at to once be qualified relieve to and exercise remove the . art of healing

    on their own sex and on children ? In the first laceand until a number have been instructed ,

    whence teachers p of their , own sex would emerge , classes should be formed to secure oral instruction from hysicians of age and

    experienceon so much of the structure and p functions of the body as is sufficient , for the they have in view . If the pupil entering

    on such a class had purpose previously exercised her powers of observation in the studof one of the natural sciencesbotany for example , so

    much the better y . Next a clear and full exposition , of the conditions of healthand of the influence of modes of life and surrounding

    objects , should , be given . These subjects might well be blended and made the materials of a course of lecturesor rather vivd-voce lessons ,

    of set of which the apart for they ils questions should A carefull be to be required put arranged , to to test take the , lan notes memories of , reading and certain and , and progress hours well

    pup . y p next selected well grounded step books should , must in be these fill another up sciences the course remainder , so far of as lectures of they the pup are on ils the app ' time licable symp . When toms , the ,

    charactercauses of diseasesand the best and most improved methods of , treatment . I would , not institute separate instruction Medico

    but respecting when a remedies medicine , or is , spoken as it is of technicall it should y termed be shown , Materia , its properties , ;

    pointed This course out , and would its uses be the descanted most extensive on . and most important , and

    j would and udicious recap occupy instructor itulation the longest , to would be pursued time certai . nl The y as not in same deem the questions former his duty . , fulfilled A written candid , notes with and - , les and

    out embracing * in his course of instruction the princippractice of " orthodox other systems ' of medicine besides the old , and , as it is termed ,

    . It would be needful not to ignore , but to explain , the pretensions fallacious of Homoeopath parts y of , H every ydrop system athy , etc ; . for , and good to show and bad the , true good and and false the ,

    are It ming would led be in all . for even the readiest learner and the acutest necessary

    the observer first I to would go throug recommend h both tliese that courses the _twice ils shoul at least d visi ; t but the after bedpup

    sides of patients with their instructor , and have pointed out to them

    the particular exemplifications of his oral instruction .

    Medical Education For Ladies. 319

    MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR LADIES . 319

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/31/