smann@ihu1g.UUCP (Sherry Mann) (04/20/84)
Loved this blurb I found in Feb 84 issue of Ms. magazine:
"Dr. Edward B. Foote had good words on women physicians
in his book "Dr. Foote's Plain Home Talk: Embracing Common
Sense" (1856). He wrote about female doctors: "There is
a great deal of debate nowadays as to the fitness of women
for the profession of medicine. Is the serious
consideration of this question intended to dignify and
inflate the hordes of masculine boobies who throng our
medical universities, or, to utterly disparage the
intelligence of women? Which? For all who gravely
entertain it I would make the following infallible prescription:
RX: Common Sense
Justice,
Mind your business,
Mix.
Make this compound into 10 pills, and take one every five
minutes when the question disturbs your conservative mind,
until relieved. The disease is strictly a mental one,
proceeding in men, from excessive vanity, and in women, from
a servile zeal in flattering a sex already bloated with
arrogance."