A WOMAN'S REPLY TO DR. WITHERS MOORE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7794, 13 November 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A WOMAN'S REPLY TO DR. WITHERS MOORE.

A FinesY letter from a lady reader of his address has been received by Dr. Withers Mooro, anent hia "Address on the Higher Education of Women." We print a few extracts:—"l beg, though rather late, to fch? you, on my own behalf and that of my sex generally, £r your very high opinion of Ws; though 1 must confess that it is somewhat new and startling to learn that women were created solely for the purpose of propagating the human species, and, as suoh, tor the more convenience of that glorious creature ' man,' as represented by your own illmtrious self. It may perhaps be showing my great ignorance and inferiority when I, as a lonian, repudiate your highly flattering suggestions, and not only entirely and emphatically deny the tiuth of them (though you are such a very distinguished medical ■man), and assert that, having been created with an equal intellect as man's, and with an equal love of knowledge and independence, that in itself proves the utter fallacy of your disgusting theory. Of course, everyone is awpire that medical men are threatened with tho loss of quite half of their practice by the •Amission of women into the profession, as Vueir women patients would of course gladly ?£ive the preference to their own sex when • they have ifce opportunity ; and as medical gentlemen are by no means indifferent to the question of pounds, shillings, and pence, it ' is not so much wonder that they express such horror at the prospect of their fat incomes being endangered. Let me give you one piece of advice, which is, not to repeat the disgusting, and insulting, and ignorant remarks on my sex, or else you may perhaps . finci by bitter experience that, though women ■ are, as you make them out to be, on a level with the beasts of the field, they may yet be .capable of showing their resentment at being told so by administering a sound chastisement on the offender, even though he may occupy the important position of President of tb.e British Medical Association, or of any othtar ridiculous and trumpery association," ■—'Medical Press and Circular.