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253 Story of an Emigtiant. 272
Serampoor. He was a highly educated man, about forty
vears of age, with fine, affable manners. His wife was
nineteen years old, and they had been married nine years.
With the exception of the
queen of Kutch Behar and a
few in the Zenana mission,
she was the first educated
Hindoo woman that I had
met. Her husband had
given her an excellent
education.
Their errand was to
consult me and, if possible,
obtain mv assistance in a
matter of the greatest
importance to the women of
India. The young woman
had reflected somewhat in
this manner: ’4Since I
have acquired education,
and the same amount of
knowledge as a man, why
may not other women in
India do the same? In
America many women are renowned for their great learning,
find many of them arc doctors of medicine. The women ot
India are not allowed to be visited by any man except their
husband, and as all our physicians are men, who cannot see
and carefully examine their female patients, they cannot, ot
course, prescribe proper treatment for them; hence many
women in Indiamust suffer and die without a remedy, which
often could be avoided if women studied medicine. If
American women can become physicians, then I can, and I
have decided to go to America and enter the female medical
ANNADABAI JOSIIEE.
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