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college in Philadelphia and study for the degree of doctor of
medicine, and then return to India and do good among my
countrywomen, and disprove the false doctrine which keeps
Hindoo women in ignorance and degradation." Her
husband was very enthusiastic for her plan, and, being rich,
was also able to assist her in carrying it out if I would
favor it and contribute toward its realization by reason of
the influence my official position gave.
A few weeks later, the noble minded little Brahmin
woman was on her way across the great ocean to that country
where not only man but also woman enjoys a free
existence. She carried official letters from me to all American
authorities with which she might come in contact, also to
the mayor of Philadelphia, and to the state department at
Washington. Before leaving Calcutta she delivered an
extempore address before a large audience at the University
of Serampoor, of which address I have made the following
extracts:
I am asked hundreds of questions about my going to
America. I take this opportunity to answer some of them.
I go to America because I wish to study medicine. I now
address the ladies present here, who will be the better
judges of the importance of female medical assistance in India.
I never consider this subject without being impressed that
none of those societies so laudably established in India for
the promotion of science and female education have ever
thought of sending one of their female members into the
more civilized parts of the world to procure thorough
medical knowledge, in order to open here a college for the
instruction of women in medicine. The want of female
physicians in India is keenly felt in every quarter. Ladies,
both European and native, are naturally averse to expose
themselves in cases of emergency to treatment by doctors
of the other sex. There are some female doctors in India
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