MEDICAL WOMEN
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Footnotes have been moved to end of each essay.
Variant spelling and inconsistent hyphenation are retained.
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MEDICAL WOMEN
Two Essays
BY
Sophia Jex-Blake.
I.
Medicine as a Profession for Women.
II.
Medical Education of Women.
EDINBURGH:
WILLIAM OLIPHANT & Co., 57 FREDERICK STREET.
LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, & Co.
1872.
[All Rights Reserved.]
JOHN LINDSAY, PRINTER, 104 HIGH STREET, EDINBURGH.
Dedicated
TO
Dr Lucy Sewall,
FROM WHOSE DAILY LIFE
I FIRST LEARNED WHAT INCALCULABLE BLESSINGS
MAY BE CONFERRED ON THE SICK AND SUFFERING OF HER OWN SEX
BY A NOBLE AND PURE-MINDED WOMAN
WHO IS ALSO
A THOROUGHLY SCIENTIFIC PHYSICIAN.
I.
Medicine as a Profession for Women.
REPRINTED, WITH LARGE ADDITIONS,
FROM “WOMAN’S WORK AND WOMAN’S CULTURE.”
“We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide foranother portion, or any individual for another individual, what isand what is not their ‘proper sphere.’ The proper sphere for allhuman beings is the largest and highest which they are able toattain to. What this is cannot be ascertained without completeliberty of choice.”—Mrs J. S. Mill.
MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION FOR WOMEN.
“The universe shall henceforth speak for you
And witness, She who did this thing, was born
To do it; claims her license in her work.
And so with more works. Whoso cures the plague,
Though twice a woman, shall be called a leech.”
“Aurora Leigh.”
It is a very comfortable faith to hold that “whateveris, is best,” not only in the dispensations ofProvidence, but in the social order of daily life;but it is a faith which is perhaps best preservedby careful avoidance of too much inquiry intofacts. The theory, if applied to past as wellas to present times, would involve us in somestartling contradictions, for there is ha                        
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