Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-04-06
A WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE.
Nhat Lady of Great Prominence Has
to Say About Her Sex.
Boston GloJe)

On recent trip by representative of thi.
payer TO the CITY of Haverh H. Mss, a most
impot Mt incident occurred. which can not
fail to DC of the greatest int rest to ell cs ye-
cial toourlaLy reHuers The news laper man
met iaIy q triic past N ddIe age with lux
urious white hair tuat contrAsteI stu ,ingly
with piercing bl OK eyes, She possessed a
str. t-ht, iuli habit, womAnly, but command
IN, cO.uuined with uia Iuers wuUly lady-IIke
anu yet prOnOunceL Any acute Judge GA
hu.' - n ture Gould see at once tha he WAS
In tue pr. senIe of an unusual person gy--one
uestined 70 A,cOmp. sl more than lost oI
her sex, and 10 cX r. an Ihhdeuce tar reach
ing IN its POW r. IN I4dy was Mrs Al. W.
wing te. Almo-t non childhood she has
taken sIeci-l interest in the bodily troubles
OF her sex and has prob-b.y bee more sue
cessiul Ia ieiieviag sunerIg and saving lives
thAh any oth,r woman an AmerIca- Indeed,
she seems to nave been to women what For
enee ghtengale and Dor thy Dix were to
the suffering soldiers. The INST noes of NO.
men who we're ia the gre test agony AN ap-
pare tiy beyond the r, ach II human aid that
sue has rssCoIed to heath AID happiness are
almost innuneTab e, md IL was only natural
th-t The scribe should become specially in
teTested aud wish to converse WITH ber more
In detail
''how long hive you been engaged in the
practice Of medicine, Mrs. WiugaIe!r
For more tn twenty-five yesr&"
pen TO enter The neid at that early da, when
NO zen in the Professions were specially
frOwned down upolf'
u th.uk mus have inherited taste from
my Their, trOlessur J. Z. NoOd, OF HAIRY ri
College. DE was eminent in the professiou,
haid worker snd equally earnest In his rec
ttatious. He hunted CO .sidera IL, and 4 re-
remember when only nine Years old used
70 dlssect the birds aud animals hehad killed.
l felt inf tuate with medical sgieHc-, even
he In fat h,a VaH wv f,
tie present time"
AND did you begin your stuiies so early
In lifef'
Il can hardy say when L began. for can
not rememter when j did not reaG medic.l
literal ure. YCLwJuId sea- cely beheve it
but VAS slenIer girl md DID not weigh
over 40 p unds, but / used 20 sit up night
afler night until two o'clock in the o. n.ng
por over my studies AID never dreaming
OF the n. ght OF time. Ii seemed Is though
calls for .. attendance on the sick always
came unsol cited / certainly can not 6x the
d &c when ! first began pr ,cticIng D. course
most OF my p~tients were women, and g. G
naturai symp. thy i feIt for nv sex has in
creased during all these yens where have
been brought 80 closely an couiact with {. EN-
and have iearne 10 anticii ate taeir needs and
synpathiZe with their sufferin - Afer the
opening OF tn Boston Medical College I a =
Pc red before The faculty, pas~ed examination
and received q p oma had pr cticed for
years previous to that time but thought tide
sirable to receive another diploma, which
dad without any effort"
Your experience with the many and SER
Gus diseases of women hSvi g been so extern
sive - ust SO be vau blei Can you give me
some facts regardi themm
81 nnd tn woman seems born to suffer-
ing, AM where she avoids IL, Il is BY reason
OF some care on her part or owing To some
special renewing power. It Il true some
women 60 through life without unusu Il suf-
| primo, but they are none the less In danger,
for there are CT tical periods all along their
pathway whrn the utmost precaution IL re-
| GU FED The innumerAbIe complaints called
fcmN'e weaknesses; tie irregularities OF life
and changes or the system al ind cae the
perils which hang over every woman's career,
and which. unless attended to, may result
dlsastr0usly."