ABSTRACT
The intellectual training required for the physician is admirably adapted to supply deficiencies in the ordinary experience of women. The intellectual characteristics which must be especially gained during student life, are—the faculty of patient observation, exact statement of what is observed, and cautious deductions from these observations. In medicine, anatomy physiology and chemistry are the primary studies where that foundation of conscientious exactitude must be laid, on which the skill of the future physician so largely depends. The thoughtless slashing of the delicate and complicated structure of the body, of which untrained students are often guilty, is indicative of a careless unconscientious future physician. The tendency of unprejudiced science in our day is to show the unsatisfactory character of the terms matter and spirit. For the exaltation of what the author term matter, tends constantly to lose itself in what they call spirit.
