Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, at the Eleventh Annual Commencement, March 14, 1863 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Excerpt from Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, at the Eleventh Annual Commencement, March 14, 1863

It has been contended that the constitution of the female mind is such as would render woman a dangerous element in a profession in which are needed nice discriminations and logical reasonings. That her mind is less inductive than that of man is, perhaps, possible, while there may be truth in the suggestion of a departed son of genius, that induction is not the whole of logic, or the Baconian method alone worthy the attention of sound and sensible thinkers. Many of our greatest modern discoveries attest the utility and power of deductive reasoning that the mind may safely journey from ideas to facts, as from facts to ideas, and possibly this very element of deduction in the female mind may become an element of progress in the medical profession.

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