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PREFACE
It has often been urged that a record should be preserved of some of the first efforts by means of which the medical profession of our day has been opened to women.
In the belief that a large providential guidance may often be recognised in the comparatively trivial incidents of an individual life, this request of many friends is here complied with.
The possession of old journals and of family correspondence gives accuracy to these details of past years.
Hastings, 1895.
