Note 61 — VII. WOMAN IN MEDICINE.
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Dr. Sims, in his autobiography, complains that he was denounced as a quack by the “conservative” surgeons of New York, some of whom did not hesitate to secretly try to dissuade the ladies from doing anything about the Woman’s Hospital, and urging that the New York Hospital already accomplished every purpose.
Thus whatever is, invariably seeks to strangle in the birth that which is about to be!