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 “The diseases peculiar to women are so many and of such frequent occurrence and such severity, that half the time of the medical profession is devoted to their care, and more than half its revenues depend upon them. We have libraries of books upon them, special professorships in our medical colleges, and hosts of doctors who give them their exclusive attention. The books and the professors are all at fault. They have no knowledge of the causes or nature of these diseases and no idea of their proper treatment. Women are everywhere outraged and abused. When the full chapter of woman’s wrongs and sufferings is written, the world will be horrified at the hideous spectacle.”

Is it not fitting that, about these things, women should consult an educated and sympathetic sister, who shall not only heal them, but tell them where the wrong is, teach them how to avoid the wrong, and command them not to bring up their daughters in the ghastly innocence and gross ignorance which have helped in their own undoing.

Under a Socialist régime every profession will be open to women as to men.