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SECTION II
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION INCLUDING DENTISTRY
I
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
It may be safely claimed that, although there is still much to be done, in medicine women have gained as good a position as in any other branch of labour.
One of the most important considerations in discussing any branch of women's work is what sort of women are suited for it. The following are the chief requisites for the medical profession:—
(1) The first and most important qualification is enthusiasm. It is impossible to follow this profession with success, unless it is work for which one has not only aptitude but also natural taste. It necessitates a very strenuous life, and many unpleasant details of work, which are unimportant to a person to whom the occupation is acceptable as a whole, but which would be quite insuperably disagreeable to any one to whom the total idea of life embodied in it was unattractive.