The Saturday Review has maintained that sick women do not
usually wish to be attended by women. An interesting letter in the Times lately, signed "A Surgeon," seems to make it quite clear that this is a mistake. It tells us that " in the only hospital in London where women can be attended by female physicians, the influx of patients is so great, that to prevent the work from be- coming altogether too overwhelming to the staff and the resources of the hospital," it has been necessary both to increase the money payment and to enlarge the buildings. The truth seems to be that distrust of women physicians is still keenly felt in the middle and higher classes, but not in the lower classes, where they are very popular. And it is certainly a most monstrousgrievanee that the supply of female physicians should be stopped by that mascu- line love of monoply which is now denying to women all avenues to medical diplomas. No more discreditable tenacity of adhesion to a monopoly can be found in the whole history of Protection.
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