Views on some social subjects / by Sir Dyce Duckworth, bt.

  • Dyce Duckworth
Date:
[1915]
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Credit: Views on some social subjects / by Sir Dyce Duckworth, bt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Typhoid fever, dust a germ carrier, 12S hospital nurse’s duties in cases of, 207, 208 Unction, observations on the practice, 269, 270, 271, 273, 274, 275 Universities, Continental, and length of the medical curriculum, 18 genius loci attaching to character of, 13, 14 meaning of the word “ univer¬ sity,” 72 of Germany, growth of, 14 provincial, growth of, 45-6 representation on General Medi¬ cal Council, 51 University education, classical and modern, compared, 16, 17 conflicting doctrines in respect of, 16-17 for women, 183 general observations on, 15 not a short cut to professional excellence, 15, 16 object of, 16 what it should consist of, 16, 20 what it should not consist of, 46 Vanity, female, 192 Vegetables, deleterious effects of dust on,135 Vesalius, 55 Virchow, Rudolf, 70 Volcanic eruptions, a source of dust, i 124 Wallace, A. Russel, on women and race regeneration, 189 Wall-papers, arsenic in relation to, 134 War, purifying element of, and in¬ fluence on social life, 169 Waters, Alderman T. H., 45 Watson, Sir Thos., on success in medicine, 64 “ Weaker sex,” an obsolete term, 177 White, Lydia, 193 Whitehead, Walter, 11 Wilkinson, Eason, 11 Wilson, Canon, on education and alienation from Christian thought, 263 Wilson, George, 69 Wine, good, contains wholesome in¬ gredients besides alcohol, 150 Palladius on the moderate use of, 147 Wisdom, definition of, 31 distinct from, but not opposed to knowledge, 30 in medicine, 30, 31, 32, 34 knowledge not necessarily im¬ plied by, 268 Women, achievements of, in litera¬ ture, 171 age at which they should marry, 181 and foreign missionary work, 181 and race regeneration, 189 as governesses and teachers, 185 as travellers and scientists, 172 blue-stocking class, 192, 193 Christian workers, 193-4 elderly spinsters, 176, 177 emancipation of, 170, 174, 188 emancipation of, what is meant by the term, 171 feminine and maternal instincts vary in, 204 frivolous, silly, or “ smart ” class, 192 higher education of, 183, 185 higher education of, and dress, 193 higher education of, and loss of womanly attributes, 186 household duties more important than higher education, 175, 176, 185, 186 in medicine, 202, 203 in politics and public life, 177, 179, 190-1 in the nineteenth century, char¬ acteristics, life, manners, 169, 170, 173 influence of, on men, 187 mind and nature of, different from those of man, 174