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214 which she cannot honor, and which will not honor her. She has expatriated herself from her own sex, and is looked upon as an erring sister, who has gone astray from the fold of womanhood, seeking fruits in forbidden fields. The endearing ties of sisterhood have been severed, and she has forfeited the gentle courtesies and amenities of the sterner sex. She appears a monster in the garb of a female, a nondescript, a being sui generis.

When a female resolves to become a doctor in medicine, she must also resolve to violate a law of her being, and vow perpetual celibacy. She may shut her eyes and stop her ears to all the pleasures of social intercourse, and look upon mankind and the world with stoical indifference. It cannot be otherwise. The mother cannot leave her nursing infant at the hour of midnight, and launch out amid the howling tempest to attend the sick. She must not expose herself to the thousand hardships and dangers that are incident to a life of medical practice. These are duties which do not belong to her, and should not be expected of her. The female arm was