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occupation. Practical examples of the sort of attempts made, may be of
service.

_Example 1._--A medical woman went as _locum tenens_ for a
practitioner in a country town during the South African War. The
practitioner himself was at the time absolutely incapacitated by a
severe form of influenza, complicated by ocular neuralgia which made
work absolutely impossible. Owing to the War, he was quite unable to
get a man to act as _locum tenens_. A woman consented to help him in
his extremity, at considerable inconvenience both to herself and to
the people with whom she was working at the time. She carried on the
practice during the depth of the winter, having on some occasions to
go out in the snow-sleigh and frequently to drive in an open trap
at night in the deadly cold. She carried on the work with such
conspicuous success that her "chief" asked her to stay on as his
assistant when he was convalescent. For this he offered her L85 a
year, living in, saying, without any shame, that he knew that this was
not the price that any man would command, but that it was plenty for a
woman. He was bound to admit that he had lost no patient through her,
that he charged no lower fees when she went to a case than when he
did, that she did half the work while acting as his assistant, and
that she had kept his practice together for him while he was ill.
Fortunately, owing to the fact that she had behind her means
of subsistence without her salary, she was able to refuse his
unsatisfactory offer, although at considerable violence to her
feelings, for she had made many friends in the neighbourhood.

_Example 2_.--A husband and wife, both medical, went to settle in a
town in the north of England. They both practised, the qualifications
of both were excellent, but the woman was the more brilliant of the
two, having better degrees and more distinctions. Both applied to
be admitted to the local medical society. The man was, of course,
accepted, the woman refused on the score of her sex, this meaning that
she would be cut off from all opportunity of hearing medical papers
and discussing medical subjects with her colleagues. During the next
few months a local friendly society was anxious to obtain a medical
officer and was offering terms regarded as insufficient by the local
doctors. Among others approached by this society was the medical woman
in question. Directly the officials of the medical society, which had
banned her when her own b