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number of ladies in sickness and in diseases peculiar
to their sex. She has especially been a benefactor to
the women of the lower classes, giving them lectures
on physiology that have been attended by hundreds
of women. She read them to me, and her introductory
lecture gave me a high opinion of the little doctor
and her powers of mind. I was really delighted
with her, and now for the first time fully saw the
importance of women devoting themselves to the medical
profession. The view she took of the human body and
its value had a thoroughly religious tendency, and
when she impressed upon the woman’s mind and heart
that she should value her own and her child’s physical
frame, to understand them aright in order to take care
of them right, it was because their destination was
lofty, because they are the habitations of the soul
and the temples of God. There was an earnestness,
a simplicity, and an honesty in her representations;
integrity and purity in every word; the style was
of the highest class, and these lectures could not
but operate powerfully upon every poor human heart,
and in particular upon the heart of every mother. And
when one reflects how important for future generations
is the proper estimation of the woman and child,
how much depends upon diet, upon that fostering which
lies beyond the sphere of the
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