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her adaptability to the w ork is QO longer a n experiment. When such women .'is Mary Putnam-Jacobi, Clara Marshall, Elizabeth C. Keller. Emma P. Gaston, and dozens oi others are among us, living examples ol what she oan rise to in the stud^ and pracii of medicine, surely the fitness ofwoman for this great work is proved. Sin- is especially adapted to the treatment of diseases oi women and children, though there is no good reason why she should not practice, to some extent, in other fields. One purposing to enter the medical pr< ssion should be possessed of a good constitution, calm judgment, steady nerve

md and morals. Habitual earnestness

wife and mother. Mai le pi ni:i IT\ physicians and continu< blessing to anj commun in w h tin may reside. The prepa ral ion for t be college, is exceeding] \ f inatii i unlike the drud which other kinds of study. Th( vrit number of fema le inediea 1 I lent -. » in I

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more happy, and, at the tin. earnest and enterprising et of n they. The woman of to lay is n tl imph helpless crealare of a half < itun is finding out thai shi in do >un dn

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should In- joined with a capability of seeing the bright side of things; for it is no small pari of a physician's duty to cheer his patient. Now. ther< thousands of noble women possessing these qualities, some of them, perhaps, right in the midst of us, who are too ible and independent to wed, merely in order to ge\ a support, bui who are not decided to their life work. So many places have been opened to them of late years, that they are bewildered, no! known which to choose. Women are keepog 1 type-writing, merchandising, doin rchitei d \\<>i L and besides a hundred oth< things, even pleading al the bar i torturing their brains with legal quibBut the grandi I openu the one D rmpathetic and worthy of woman's b i we belies e, t he pracl ice of nd. m to that, a kindred work, tie- prof< ional nur Nor i- th. Iud\ i>f medicine to be puru d only by women who a re unma rried and •main 90. It lit- a woman better tl 1 an) other train in 1 for tin < lut ies of

can work and that it is no di.s fast demonstrating to the v rid tl not wh.it she has masqueraded for • 1 « but th.it she is the complement—a full fiv< tent hs . > man. ready and w illii f r1 share of tin- burdens 1 > humanity. f

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