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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 277

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    1. Thirteenth Annual Announcement Of The...

    to rescue it from neglect and obloquy until within the last hundred and twenty years : —

    _inundin '" When with Pareus others , Mauriceau began to , De investi la Mott gate e it , Deventer , and to , raise and it Justina to its Sieges proper

    -, , place " In as a a very science short . . time . the . practice of towards obstetrics the was regulated in such a

    become entirel manner y lessened that disappeared not to onl , an y but had insi the gnificant the terrible horror number operations belong often ing persons to practised the engaged class had of in also un it

    -Burns avoidables and . Hunter Every country while France produced raised authorities up , her . Baudeloque England boasted , her her Madame John

    profession these Lachapelle a woman such , Madame took thoroug , the Boivin hl lead y scientific , . and Justin many a investi Siegesmundin others gators . But as was no did country the Germany pioneer gave , and of to this the of workwritten the in 1741

    _o-reat reformand her , upon subject , came upon _^ pre Europe -occup lik ied e a , with thunderb a thousand olt , awakening other short things minds time , forgetting in before every have country the most been which important deemed had been im , to

    importance possible an activity . In , , which as Germany the foundation would , therefore but almost a , is the of s all ubject other still practice considered . There of momentous the com- - heardthat abuse is the main demonstration of the

    p practice laint has of ceased midwife to ry be ; and other the , statistics prove h its that less loss of of difficult lives is there

    is exp the erienced _« _reatest than of in any . The name country of an , thoug obstetrician proportion whether man or woman cases can only be acquired any by those who comprehend the , laws of nature in their ,

    development widest stitute medic sense , ; al and who learning are are in full ; read and every y at who the home respect besides articles in humane all have the ied attained . different from The truth the the branches hei of g lish hts thi that s of into many log con ical the of

    to Baroness American you will family know Yon journals which . Siebold who , has have upon , a produced German the recent , who more was death th a cop an woman of one Dr of . medi Heidenreich great cal Eng talent authority , , belong formerl . No ing y

    for medical a the practice man , however ; and as hig for h in her station learning , thoug , all ht knew of questioning that it was her profoun _caj _3 acity d as their for she had studied with themlistened to the same professors

    separated sat upon own the from same them bench in education at their examination , and stood , ; in in every one word respect , had on never the sam been e ,

    level . " With such illustrious examples before us in the present as Germany

    and America afford , and with the _j ) ast as a precedent for the admission of women as practitioners of the healing' art , how is it that in

    medical England instruction we have no for Female those enli Medical ghtened College women —no among possible - us means who feel of

    their vocation to be that of the physician , and who are driven from their homes and country to pursue the necessary studies ? Never

    was there such need of properly qualified female physicians in England as at ' the present time . The diseases peculiar to women are have the last half

    fearfull rise to y a on class the of increase practitioners , and from during whom delicate-minded century women given

    shrink with horror , suffering tortures in silence rather than have recourse to curative means repulsive to their very nature , while husbands

    and fathers look with , but too often , just indignation and suspicion upon alike assi the fulfilment to women of . offices There by are men cases which within natur our own e and knowled morality ge

    gn

    Notices Of Books. 277

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 277

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/61/