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demand the exposure of private parts, let her refuse decidedly to do
this work.
In the medical work there are dangers which the physician should
understand and constantly guard against. Truly converted men are the
ones who should be employed as physicians in our sanitariums. Some
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physicians are self-sufficient and consider themselves able to guard
their own ways; whereas if they but knew themselves, they would feel
their great need of help from above, a higher intelligence.
Some medical men are unfit to act as physicians to women because
of the attitude they assume toward them. They take liberties until it
becomes a common thing with them to transgress the laws of chastity.
Our physicians should have the highest regard for the direction given
by God to His church when they were delivered from Egypt. This will
keep them from becoming loose in manners and careless in regard to
the laws of chastity. All who live by the laws given by God from Sinai
may be safely trusted.
Skillful Midwives Needed
It is not in harmony with the instructions given at Sinai that gen-
tlemen physicians should do the work of midwives. The Bible speaks
of women at childbirth being attended by women, and thus it ought
always to be. Women should be educated and trained to act skillfully
as midwives and physicians to their sex. It is just as important that a
line of study be given to educate women to deal with women’s dis-
eases, as it is that there should be gentlemen thoroughly trained to act
as physicians and surgeons. And the wages of the woman should be
proportionate to her services. She should be as much appreciated in
her work as the gentleman physician is appreciated in his work.
Let us educate ladies to become intelligent in the work of treating
the diseases of their sex. They will sometimes need the counsel and
assistance of experienced gentlemen physicians. When brought into
trying places let all be led by supreme wisdom. Let all bear in mind
that they need and may have the wisdom of the Great Physician in
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their work.
We ought to have a school where women can be educated by
women physicians, to do the best possible work in treating the diseases
of women.