Author: Sophia Jex-Blake

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-23

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780365428596

Excerpt from Medical Women, a Thesis and a History: I. Medicine as a Profession for Women; II. The Medical Education of Women; I. Battle in Edinburgh; II. The Victory Won The first edition of this book has now been out of print for some years, and repeated applications have been made to me by booksellers and others for a second edition. It was, how ever, manifestly impossible to issue this without bringing the history of events down to the present time, and more pressing duties have repeatedly obliged me to delay the execution of this project. Even now the work has been accomplished only with considerable difficulty, in the intervals available in the course of a busy professional life; and I trust that this circumstance will be remembered by critics, who can, no doubt, only too easily find defects that might have been avoided if a greater measure of learned leisure had been at my disposal. I have made it my single object in this volume to give as complete and comprehensive a view as brevity would allow of the whole question of medical practice by women, and of the history of the movement in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.