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To the Editor of the English Woman*s Jou...
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To The Editor Of The English Woman' } S ...
* public tion of feeling this to * bestows tkose under upon my almost care every ; and other yet , wanting duty towards that sympath the afflicted y which it
peculiar is from this difficult cause , and as well self- as abnegation from the inevitable A more nature of recognition the charge of , one these , of
y . generous points and stimulate by society others , would to encourag enter on 'e tlie those vocation women . who And work althoug conscientiousl h the Com y - , missioners in
rather doubtless to any if those Lunacy but of medical are now men , disinclined even for the to license care of houses females to , they _zvo ? nen woul , or d
, superior intelligence and character presented themselves be especiall induced y as to recoveries regard them are as as suit numerous able for from the responsib the houses ilities so of conducted the position as , ;
intellectual they are elsewhere and moral . fitness Women for mi becoming ght pass proprietors through an of asy examination lums for _tvomen as , to _? having iirst received suitable
some training . further answered Have , and I ? , dear If I will not madam , rep pray ly , to , if responded the it is best not of too to my much your ability trouble note . as to you yourself desired _^ question to be
Believe me , dear Madam , Yours sincerel
y , _CJ . IX Hendon
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To the Editor of the English Woman * s Journal , Madam ,
tude your The of Journal gentleman all women , on Medical , who for the kindl Education interest y contributed he for takes Ladies a in paper , is a well movement to entitled the last so to essential number the grati to of - .
of the There his well rem - is being arks too gr of are eat us open an all . anxiety to At objection the on same his . part time to , I diminish cannot but the difficulty think that , for some
wothe men difficulty , of the stu of d an y of undertaking medicine . will This act is as not an a inducement good step to instead begin with of a , dis for - , women couragement who are , to conscious persons of of an possessing aspiring' and such a a resolved nature who nature should , and mak it is e onl this y
is against attempt _yery likel almost at all y . to all sli As knowle p for out the of d the argument acquired memory against in afterward earl acquiring childhood s , the same knowled . But might no ge be , one th urged at ever it
thought of starting the idea ge that the minds of y children should not be dismember ciplined very to habits little of of sober what and they silent learn . app If lication the value , even of reading if they in should general
rewere estimated by the amount which the student actually rememb , ers , then , not stud so y would ; the most , very important justly , be result considered from as mental a great effort waste is of the time strengthening . But it is
of ori the inatin ment more al faculties ideas . , the It power seems to acquired me an of unfortunat gaining e mor notion e knowledge that women and _are g to learn g this and that , only if they are in the humour , as a matter of
_tat : te and impulse . Dilettariteism has been their tane from the beginning of time ; God forbid that they should bring it with them to this momentous strugglein which it well be said " the attemptand not the deed
, may , , , does confounds us incalculable us , " puts mischief us back . hundreds of years , and , in every point of view , Jf any innovation in the medical course of study be desirable , then let
let men women , whose follow footing at is a secure respect , fu try l distance the new , groun as they d for hav themselves e done hitherto and . for Con us - ; will sidering be to what detect prejudices their weak they points . "will have they to should meet , be and possessed how ready of every the world
advantage , real and apparent , every , qualification and every prestige _* Time
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/68/
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