Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-30
A VOCATION FOR WOMEN.
Some Remarks by Oliver Wendell
Holmes on Proposed Dual Ar.

Holmes on a Proposed Dual Ar
rangement.
Little things mean a great deal in the
s:ck-room. 'Will you have an orange or
Big" said DR.. James jackson to fine
little boy now grown up to a goodly
ste ture, and whom l may be fortunate
enough to recognize among my audi
ence Of to day. "A &C., answered Mas.
ter Theodore, with aIacfity. No fever
thore! said the good doctor, 'or he
would certainly have said an ORANGE
Now, it is just these little unimportant
all-important matters that good nurse
is of incalcua,le aid to the physician.
And the growing conviction the i'm
portance Of thorough training of young
women as nurses is one OF the most
hope|ui Signs Of medical advancement.
SO much han been done and is doing
that tine days OIL the Sa.rey Camps and
Betsy .Prigs are numbered. What is
there IN the hour of anguish like the
gentle presence, the quiet voice, the
thoroughly trained and skiilfuI hand of
the woman WHO WAS meant by ma
ture and has been taught by
careful discipline to render those servi-
ces which tries to reward, but only graf
itude can repay? have always telt that
this was rather the vocation of women
than general medical, and especially
surgical. practice. Yet [ myself followed
a course OF lectures g wen by the younger
Nine. Lechapelle in Paris, and if here
and there an Intrepid woman insists ON
education, [ would have the gate hung
an IN har 40 If hot >f ft,o
del of Orleans and she were Joan. of Arc
returning from the f III of victory;
have often wished that disease could be
hunted 10y it's professional ANTAGONISTS
in couples-a doctor and a doctors
quick-witted wife nlaking joint visit
and attacking the patient-i fuean the
patients malady, Of course-with their
united capacities. For am quite sure
that there i5 natural claravoyanee in a
woman which would make her as much
a superior of a man in some. particulars
Of diagnosis as she certainly is in distin-
gushing shade or color. MANY suicide
would have been prevented il the doc
tors wife had visited the victim the day
before . it happened. she would
have seen in the merchants. face mis-
impending bankruptcy while her stupid
husband was prescribing for I'd dyspepsia
SAN iAIo A1o&Ny oAfO AVOu1o rec
ognize the lovetorn maiden by an ILL 3
adjusted ribbon-a*line in the features
-a,droop in the attitude, q tone in the
voice which mean nothing to him, and
sothe brook must be dragged to morrow.
The dual arrangement of Wi.ieh have
spoken is, I suppose, in,praeticatne, but
aAWomen,s advice, i suspect, often de-
termines her husba nd IS pre- ssription.
Instead Of q curtain lecture oi, his own
failings, he gets clinical lecture on The
5pnzzling case, it may be. OF q neIghbor
suffering from the complaint known to
village nosology ais "a comp iieatlon Of
diseases, which her keen eyes see into
as much better than hrs rs they would
through the eye Of u snlalt sized needle.
She will find the right end I'll a case 10
get bold OF, and take the sIlaris out as
she would out of a skein Of thfead or d
tall of Worsled which he would speedily
have reduced to d hopeless tang le.','