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    50 SANITARY LECTURES.

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    As Many Readers Of The English Woman's J...

    lectures , _tracts , and other means specially for the instruction of tlie members . The lecturer also urged upon all women the necessity

    of earnest self-instruction in sanitary science , upon the ground that if in this matter they do not teach and take care of themselves , they

    must in most cases go untaught and uncared for , the majority of medical men being , so far as hygiene is concerned , blind leaders of

    the blind . "If you want the proof of this , you have but to read the history of

    that Crimean war in which Miss Nightingale did so much . There see what it is for medical men to be ignorant of the means of

    you preserving health—there you see it in that terrible picture of those soldiers sinking , not under the enemy's fire , not under anything

    necessarily incident to war , but sinking , sinking , through ignorance of With the laws regard of life to Miss and Ni health htingale . " ' s invaluable " Notes on Nursing , '

    g Dr . Lankester said : — " I trust every lady here has that book , and has studied it over and over again . I would here say , as a medical man , I

    do not think Miss Nightingale has exaggerated in anything she has there stated with regard to the various subjects on which she speaks

    so decidedly and in so masterly a manner . Why , you would think a man ' s mind had got into a tenderdelicate female frameas you read

    this bookthere is so much force , and decisionand so much , love and tenderness , about it . Many medical men , I b , elieve , condemn it on

    account of what they call her rash assertions ; ' but recollect medical men have not fully studied the subjects of which it treats , and ,

    therehave fore , they not studied are reall ph y ysiology not qualified in relation to give to an the op preservation inion upon them of health : time they ,

    there but onl has y in been relation no instruction to the cure of of medical disease . men Up in to the the laws present of health . One is ladhoweverto know that the thing is at last just

    beging , , ning , that at the present time there is being established a professorship of medical hygiene for the instruction of those who enter the

    army "If as surgeons were to . " ask . .. ive a lecture on nursingI should just

    look throug you h Miss Nightingale g ' s book very carefully , , and endeavor to impress upon you the necessity of reading it , and studying

    nurshow ing spoken in heedless . the You light and will of ignorant the fold p by hysiolo experience g le ical are knowled how on this well ge subject she of which has . written She I have is quite , just and

    peop ri do ght not in know saying whether , ' There , as is a more medical in nursing man , I than ought in to doctoring talk thus . ' , or I

    too them whether much in any my faith way professional in . medicine I must brethren , however I do would not , just beli say consider eve , that that I we am anything have mali all gning like had

    . that system called Homoeopathy could ever have gained ground of amongst over-dosing an intelli pursued gent formerl community y . I if think it had it not is a been reaction for the from system that .

    Moreover , I say that all systems of medicine are bad . There are no

    50 Sanitary Lectures.

    50 SANITARY LECTURES .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/50/