Letters to women on midwifery and the diseases of women : a descriptive and practical work ... illustrated with numerous cases of treatment / by Joel Shew.
- Joel Shew
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Letters to women on midwifery and the diseases of women : a descriptive and practical work ... illustrated with numerous cases of treatment / by Joel Shew. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![act as a :ause, eithei directly or indirectly, of the dis ease. I will here give you a case which may serve to throw some light on the subject. A physician was called to visit a young lady of the city of New York, of a wealthy family, in which, the mother being present, something like the following conversation occurred : Doctor.—Well, Miss, how are you to-day ? Patient.—Not very well, I am sorry to say. D.—Do you attend school at present ] P.—Yes ; I am at Mrs. 's seminary, in street. D.—How long have you been there ? P.—Four years, including now and then a vacation of a few weeks. D.—What have been your studies'? P.—Composition, Rhetoric, Mathematics, Philosophy, Chemistry, Botany, French. Spanish, Music, and Drawing. D.—Do you like your studies ] P.—Yes; some of them very much. D.—How do you like the study of English composl tion ? P.—I can hardly say ; we have to do every thing in French ; address our teacher in French when w€ go to school in the morning ; speak French in our exercises; hi 6hort, it is nothing but French all day. D.—On the whole, you say you like your studies] P.—Yes, when I am well; but latterly I have been so ill and low-spirited I could not enjoy any thing. I like study when I am able to perform it—like it very much. I used to succeed well; but latterly I am discouraged, and do not accomplish any thing at all.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21004055_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
