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FEMALE PILLS FOR THE PAGAN.

FEMALE PILLS FOR THE PAGAN.
From the NJ Y. World
An argument has been suggested in favor
of thorough female medical education which,
we confess, never occurred to us before, and
which is conclusive. At the recent Pennsyl-
vania Hospital congress read that con-
tributor warmly urged the propriety of
women receiving medical training, and espe-
c;ally adverted to the need of trained female
practitioners to reach the families of the
various Asiatic nations" This man is proba-
bly, frustrated missionary. This idea of
sending female doctors to the Eastern
heatbens should be developed so as to be
fully understood. A sort of oriental Liberia
whittier enfranchised females might go and
do within the limits of decorum, of course.
what they please, is not bad idea. There
should be stipulation against their return
ing too soon. As the exact spot is not speci-
fed at which this feminine experiment on
Asia is to begin, one must speculate about it.
Passing by Turkey, Egypt, though not
Asiatic, would probably come first in order.
This is the land of Shiphrah and Puah, of
whom we read in the good book and Zip
porah, who had surgical tendency, and of
ess reputable females like Cleopatra and the
ady of the Captain of Pharaoh's guard.
Still, if we may trust Mrs. Grey, who, with
the Princess of Wales, visited the Khedive's
"
is entirely unexceptionabe. The ladies' are
very fat, resulting from the want of fresh air
and exercise, and dirty, from want of fresh
water. Here an active, wiry, clean little
woman with a crop, from Philadelphia, mi ght
do great good. A sharp, angular figure and
the crop would preclude the Viceroys atten-
tions or the jealousy of his wives, and the
patient would doubtless prefer being handled
by woman with a masculine tendency than
one of the other sex w0manly inclined. In
Arabia, stony, sandy, or happy, there is not
room for any but veterinary practice, and
Mesopotamia, where Adam delved
and Eve spun, though excessively unhealthy,
has never, since the days of Semiramis, or at
least Zenobia, been a good place for enter
prising, energetic women. Hindostan and
China are all that are then left for this ex-
pertinent on the "first families of the
heather. What the British Government or
the native princes of Bengal will say to the
new American invasion it is not easy to fore
tell. With one opium is an article of culture
and export for mere poisoning purposes, and
with the other there is a fashion of burning
widows, which might cease to be voluntary
and extend to single women. We only hint
at these difficulties to see how they can be
obviated In China, we admit, there is
ample space and verge enough. Chiropodic
science is the branch to be practised here,
and the American female surgeon who can
persuade a Chinese woman to have her
loot put to rights, and then do it,
will have performed a prodigy. DR.. Peter
Parker's ophthalmic exploits will be nothing
to triumph over inverted toes, and, if this
new plan of missionary medicine succeed, it
will do more to put female China on its feet
than all that Mr.. Burlingame accomplished.
That there may be social difficulties we admit.
Costume, however, is not one of them, for in
China all the men wear petticoats and the
women trousers. There, as everywhere, it
will be the first step that costs. When, years
ago, the most enlightened of Eastern states
men visited the French Minister at Macao or
Canton, he wrote to his imperial master,
after dinner party where ladies were pre-
sent:-"These barbarians have dreadfulhabit
of exposing their women to public view.
They actually safe at the same table with
your slave, who was much disturbed there
by" What Keying would have thought of a
mixed clinic can only be imagined, and how
the feminine matriculates of brotherly love
are to gain access to the inner circle of hea-
thendom we do not know. 1t is said that
once, when Lord Palmerston was importuned
to appoint troublesome intrusive person to
a consulship, he told his secretary to bring an
atlas and find the most distant point on the
globes surface. Thther he sent the bore.
Cannot Miss Dickinson be induced to migrate
and be made dean of the new medical college
at Pekin? Mrs. Stowe would find congenial
home at Petra, and Miss Anthony, like the
Triumvir, is yet young enough to try to make
her 'mark" in Egypt