The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-06-25
Noted Austrian Physician
Realizes Her Limitations
HERE WITH
SAYS Mans Hand is Needed When
1t Comes to Cutting Into the HUI
man NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. it Seeing
Husband Work.

Dr. Yelia Silbermark-Reissig, wife
Of Dr. NJ. Victor Silbermark, a noted
physician, of Vienna, both of whom
Are here on their first visit to Ameri-
ca, representing their country at the
recent Red Cross exhibit at Washing
ton. declared yesterday that if she
were IN need of a urgeon she would
never call for a woman, says the New
York American. She, herself, is a
noted physician. Would yOu?" she
seriously asked.
While L am a surgeon [ still con-
tend that it is the mans hand with
the mans nerve and brain behind it
that makes the surgeon. Women may
become great aids to men surgeon
but no woman is capable Of becoming
4 great surgeon
Up in the Plaza, where the two
ret.tbles are stopping, DIR. SLIDER
mstrk-f;eissig, who is a powerfully
built woman, at least a head taller
than her distinguished husband. ex-
pressed the above views.
it is difficult to tell why [ feel the
M | do about the women surgeons,
I'll am not opposed in any way to
any advancement of my sex. In fact,
the woman that formerly lived for
ever within her home and confined
49, " IN I1ouSS w
duties is a thing Of the past, as she
should be. No woman has a right to
i've = secluded, entirely protected
life.
believe in women going into any
profession they feel they have a bent.
That is why l am a woman physician
ana surgeon, but being so | know and
feel my limitations. l doubIy feel so
III that | have for a husband one of
the most skillful in Europe.
Watching as have and assisting to
perhaps three thousand and more
operations OF surgery which he has
performed during the past three
years. | have seen what I lacked as a
woman.
Feels Limitations.
lpf. Silbermark-ReiSSig (she adds
her maiden name to distinguish her
Sell from her huSband) gradual
ed IN 1907 from the Vienna Univer-
aity, ten years after her husband had
taken his degree.
| nave not met many women phySi-
'itns and in America, and I
suppose they will not hold any senti-
ments regarding the efficacy Of a
woman IN the medical profession, but
even at the risk Of their antagonism l
must abide by my views on this mat
ter. My husband has nothing to d.
with preJudicing me except insomuch
rs his Skill n experiences in the
most delicate operations has taught
me 70 feel my limitatiOns-a woman's
limitations as compared with the steel
grip and delicacy of a mans hand and
master nerve"
Asked what she believed was the
best sized family, DR.. Silbermark said,
and her husband sitting by corrobOr-
ated her:
The Old-time family, like the old
tlfae housewife, has gone forever. 1t
Is ne longer a proud boast to be one
vi Twelve children In these 69VS of
strenuous living and Of so much ac-
eofnpllshrnent in outside pursuits, no
man and wife can well afford to have
more than three children. l mean
mat should be the average family
II would be preferable to have two
noys and one girl, as girls cost more
ana boys take more time to bring up
Lives for Family.
ASKED the reasons for believing IL
smaller families aside from the ones
sht outlined, DR.. Silbermark-ReiSSie
declared:
The day has gone when parents
mus" give their best years up entirely
TO their children. In the times wheT
FAMILIES of twelve and fourteen were
common men and women in the for
,ts ana ffties ceased to exist as in
ditiduals.
They weree just mothers and IA.
l'i'rS or so many children. Theil
work was over. Today the men anC
women IN their fOrtieS and fifties are
~ thelr best usefulness to the WOrlG
IL they but conserve their strength
ana energy, for they have that great.
est OF all things to accomplish with
eNp~erience. Our greatest scientist.
,oday are men and women over 40
mink whatthe world would have los
IN advancement if these men and wo
men had fulfilled their destinies III
families of a dozen or more mediocr,
more or less) children!'"
believe in chi1dran. NO hnfh do
She declared, "and while we have beer
narried four years we have none, bu
lhat is because we have been pre-
pafins our lives for a family. w
nave worked together and have de
Netoped n certain c~ongenfality tina
OOly time can give and Which is nacaS