The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-01-14

RICHMOND, IND, Jan. s, 1871.
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RICHMOND, IND, Jan. s, 1871.
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In relation to woman ~ physi-
clan, and her marked success in
that to her new field Of labor, I
find the following commendatory
notice In q recent publication on
the subject:
1.-THE very best defence Of WON
an doctors ia the fact that so m ANY
OF them. in the Large cities of the
country, obtain large incomes from
their profession. The income of
the elder, Mrs. DR.. Lczier, from
her practice in New York, is over
ten thousand dollars year, and
the income Of Mrs. DR.. Denmore
is as large, while the incomes of
such doctors as Mrs. DR.. O. F.
Smith, Miss DR.. Mary Green, and
Miss DR.. Manning are over Eve.
thousand dollars a year. Women
will have no difficulty in obtaining
opportunities 10 study medicine,
when . few Of them have shown
themselves possessed of ability to
practice it profitably and success.
fully. There are two women,s
medical colleges in New York, two
in Boston, two in Philadelphia.
and number of others in other
parts OF the country. In nearly
all cases women doctors confine
their practice exclusively to per
sons of their own SEX" for the
reason that their whole time is alb
sorbed in this direction.
From the same paper we are in
formed that Miss Dr.. Green--for-
merly from Grand Rapids, Michi.
gan-commenced the study Of med.
icine while in her teens, about six
years since that she graduated
with distinguished ability, that che
now has charge of q large Hospital
in Philadelphia, that she is q lee.
turer of acknowledge ed superiority
and that sue has recently been
elected a member Of the college O.
Physicians and Surgeons" OF
New York, if I am not mistaken.
the first time that such honor has
been conferred on any female.
This state Of things is a pretty
creditabie showing, for the "sick
woman" ard must be peculiarly
distasteful to intirm men and tbeil
sympathisers, the weak women.
1t will be ample time to institute
invidious comparisons, between
the mental capacities Of the two
sexes, when woman shall have beer
fully freed from her thraidom
have given her an equal chance il
the race OF life--when the incubu.
of despotic custom shall have beer
removed from her--when an equa
extent and variety Of employment
shall have been opened to her
when equal motives--simi'a ar in
ducements to cultivate her under
standing shall have been supple,
to her-when it shall have becom
as fashionable for woman to CLAIM
and receive respect, esteem an,
admiration for exhibitions of intel
lectual powers, as it now is for he
to manifest her silly and useles
frivolities. When all this chang
shall have been established for a
many decades, as these have pass
ed thousands of years, of her alb
ject and enervating subjectior
there will be furnished more RI
liable data from which to dra'
valuable differences. Till this d,
sirable consummation has Obtain
ed, it would be more creditable I
mans gallantry, not to boast {
women's mental inferiority.
We first surround woman wit
the tyranny Of vicious custom
circumscribe her limits Of usefu
ness, close up to her various field
of profitable service - withdra
from her stimulants To the acquis
ton of useful knowledge--rend'
it impolite for her to study Il
natural sciences--to obtain Iii
eral education--cor fine her enc
gies TO the dull routine of domest
duties, and to frivolous accomplish
ments--in q word, do all we can
dwarf her intellect and deadt
ier aspirations for the more e
nobling duties of life, and then,
our pride and self congratulate
ridicule her mental imbecility
What unselfish magnanimity
we here witness Some cav
ling opponents of enfrancllisil
woman, in their simplicity nj
ask whether it is proposed to ed
cate her in order that she may pr
form the duties of man. / answ
by no manner of means. I do n
understand that the "foundatio
of society" are to be up.urned
woman suffrage, but rather th
these foundations shall becon
more firmly and nationally lai
and thereby made more enduril
and better conclusive to the in
,provement and well being of a
/ advocate very practical chan
in her behalf, to the end that $
may be better qualified Tor the {
ecutiOn of her own duties. A
there not entrusted TO woman
care and almost the exclusive ira
ing Of the young, at q time in III
lives during whi-h more than
any other period. lessons of "
dom, of goodness and Of vir,
should be sedulously inculcate
and how can this possibly be dc
If the parents themselves are i'll
crate, or not thoroughly furnis
ed unto all good works."
With what visions of beauty