ABSTRACT
It is sometimes urged that by women who do not actually require it, accepting remune~ation, they are taking money from their poorer sisters; but this argument if we look into it, proves utterly fallacious. So long as public feeling is against ladies earning money, every woman who has the courage to assert practically, the opposite principle, does very substantially benefit the cause of 'Women. Can we doubt that those ladies who have taken
medical degrees, and established themselves in remunerative practice, thus showing what women are fitted for, have done infinitely more for the pecuniary interests of their sex, than all the societies formed by benevolence to assist indigent gentlewomen 'I The success which has attended those ladies both in this country and abroad, who have entered on the practice of m.edicine, confutes the argument sometimes advanced, that there is no demand for women doctors; the demand is only limited by the supply.
