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ME D I C I N E makes use of a diversity of talents, and offers a variety th
of interest to anyone following it. If one has skillful fingers o
and a liking for the concrete, surgery offers a field of endeavor. w
Internal medicine demands from its specialists the ability to understand a
obscure symptoms, to visualize the confusing processes of disease, and F
to effect a cure by using all the modern agencies of science. The pre- d
clinical, or scientific, branches of medicine have room for teachers, and ti
for imaginative and accurate research workers. Yet another opportunity In
for medical service which is becoming more important every day, is pre- m
ventive medicine and public health work, for which executive ability and A
the desire for unselfish social service are required. th
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In such a profession as this there must be room for women. The clas- th
sical history of the beginning of the healing art relates how Hygeia, the a
daughter .of yEsculapius, received the secrets of health from her father, fo
the god of healing. Thus from antiquity it has been recognized that in
a profession touching so closely the welfare of humanity, the services of p
both men and women are needed. The contributions of women, how- m
ever, have most often been made as untrained nurses or as ignorant mid- It
wives, or as witch-like herb women who mixed magic and medicine to sc
no very wholesome end. Only within the last generation have women u
been trained in the science of medicine, and only within the last thirty d
years have women been accepted generally by the larger universities for th
medical training of the same type that men receive. Even today dis-
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