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The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake

Note 114 — Chapter XVII · THE QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT

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“In this case, as in most others, those who say they want a thing must put their own shoulders to the wheel in order to obtain it, and must be prepared to back the soundness of their opinions. If only twenty women annually could be added to the ranks of the medical profession in this country, the expediency of the addition would be speedily removed from the domain of controversy, and the expression, ‘Solvitur ambulando,’ which Mrs, Anderson calls an adage, would be applicable to the case.”

Times, August 23rd, 1873.

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