CHAPTER II

THE MARRIED WOMAN

The genius of motherhood—Marriage a physical science—Domestic difficulties—Platonism in marriage—Semi-wives—Wives in name only—Vocation of women for medicine—Women as sick-nurses—as doctors—Enfranchisement of women as regards medicine—Intimacies between women and doctors—Women’s medical collections—Hygienic rules—Neurasthenia—Woman as home-ruler—The châtelaine—Her management of retainers—The science of charity—Principles of great houses. Pages 45-69