Author: Sarah W. SalisburyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781390970319
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Excerpt from Introductory Lecture, Delivered Nov. 8, 1860, Before the Ladies' Medical Academy, at the Opening of the Second Term Nothing but the interest I feel in the cause of the Medical Education of Women, and a desire to do all I can to promote it, would induce me thus publicly to address you. I need not tell you that the presence of so many friends cheers and encourages us; it seems to tell us that many hearts beat in unison in a good cause. But while we bid you welcome, we regret our inability to entertain you as we could wish. We feel confident, however, that you are friends, and will be ready to throw the mantle of charity over all defects. The occasion which has called us together is necessarily one of interest to those about to attend the present course of lec tures; and I think there is much to render it so to all. Though only a few of the audience are students of medicine, yet all should feel an interest in a subject which so intimately concerns them as their own health. No unworthy motives have called us together. We meet here simply to welcome a class of stu dents to a course of medical study; and to call the attention of women to the claims the world has upon them as the mothers and educators of our race, that they may be prepared to meet those claims and to faithfully discharge the duties which in the order of Providence may devolve upon them. 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.