These ladies have not even the advantages which the idlest student can hardly help availing himself of—and his minimum is ‘three years.’ Yet this is the course proposed to enable a woman to ‘practise midwifery,’ even in the sense in which we understand a man to ‘practise midwifery,’—to enable a woman to become a physician accoucheuse (for these ladies are expressly styled ‘accoucheuses’) in the sense in which we understand a man to be a physician accoucheur.
The paper states, doubtless with truth, that these ladies ‘are the best taught accoucheuses hitherto accessible to the English public.’ May we not hope that, in future years, the society will be enabled to give ‘accoucheuses’ still better taught ‘to the English public’?
LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
[1]. Exclusive of the case of a poor woman who was delivered in a cab, and died in the hospital of post partum hæmorrhage.
[2]. ‘So was confined in No. 4 ward.’
[3]. Patient died 48 hours after delivery.
[4]. Patient died on her way to the hospital: not included in the calculated rates.