Show THE DOCTRESS mant R borman alai to 6 iier in england as well as in the slates tho physician is no longo n question to he discussed liutas bieg i has said reasonable because exist ing now physicians aro ro degrees every day and begin ning tho practice of alio llio healing art ir nil alio largo cities of boalt country the information now comes from india that the countess of arin is earning for bior plan for providing medical women to attend the largo number of hindmo women who die every year from medical assistance for alio in india of a training college for indian women funds and granta of land nrc for by a long list of english patrons but in germany where tho most conservatism ism in regard to female alic question of tho fo malo practitioner is met many objections A favorable view is seldom bakon in any of ahn periodicals of germany the following from a recently launched familia to lean a little to tho side of toleration it says 11 we go hack to ancient times wo find according to cato that tharo were scholars learned in hygiene but no family physicians the romans received distrust the strangers who came over from greece upon hearing that tho luxurious people of italy wanted men to ristoro thorn to the health which their dissipated manner of lifo biad deprived them of it was not however until that mcd cine decimo branch of science alio llio first medical faculty being organized by monks governed by them and who to join the fraternity were compelled to take an oath to dress in kobca tho first doctor of which record is made was tho sarah whom alie bishop of in 1120 aavo a license to tico medicine in all his parish in 1423 an oyo doctress became quite celebrated at frankfort on jhc thc main but it if only hero and down tho long path of history that tho names of appear as physicians and not until about was a medical degroo conferred upon 1 woman in england in germany are very tow elioso that aro practicing receiving their degree from awis universities versi ties zurich aiding the most gonca hiis in his since however alio occupation ot curing alio sick lias been legally num bercil among alio llio professions it is but fair thai whoever is thoroughly qualified and his been pronounced so by competent authority may practice such profession and as to competition that is a question to be decided by tho public as to merit and not but tho question as to woman can follow alic practice of medicine without neglecting her family obligations is not so easily answered A permanent separation must necessarily take place between the practitioner ana all household and maternal duties because the uncertainty of this profession precludes the possibility of an orderly arranged family life it is a profession rather to alio female of hiigli culture as alio health of such will not admit of the exposure of nil active physicians duties and if her constitution should prove strong enough to conduro tho added fatigue and iely she generally discovers all too soon that when said medicine was tho noblest vocation but the most wretched trade ho saoko alio times |