rvice to the community.
There is a form of selfishness not sufficiently recognised, which
consists not in acquiring goods but in acquiring knowledge without
rendering it again in service to one's fellow men and women.

Should the doctor decide _(c)_ to enter the public service, the
question will probably not be in her own control as there is an
ever-increasing tendency on the part of public authorities to insist
on single women or widows only among the medical women whom they
employ. There is a big fight to be waged here--one of the many that
our pioneers have left for us and our successors. The lack of social
instinct which lies behind this edict is amazing. What can be more
anti-social than that a young, healthy, and highly-trained woman
should have to decide between marriage and executing that public work
for which she has with great labour fitted herself? In at least some
cases of which the writer is aware, the demand that a doctor shall
retire on marriage, has led to a decision against matrimony, and this
is not surprising, although very serious as a general problem. The
great need of society at the present day is that the most healthy and
well-trained young men and women should be induced to found families,
and public authorities by this bar put on the trained woman, are doing
their best to hinder marriage.

Medical women have, for their protection, societies of registered
medical women in London and in the north of England and also in
Scotland, these working more or less in touch with one another. In
common with other medical societies they have meetings at which the
advances in medical science are discussed, and they also act in a
modified way as Trade Unions, Members of these societies can always
gain information from them as to the recognised rate of pay in any
particular branch of the work which they may wish to undertake.

Reference has already been made to the excellent work which has been
done by the British Medical Association in uniting the men and women
of the profession and helping both to keep up the salary rate. Without
this aid the women's associations would have been comparatively
helpless, as they would have erred in ignorance, though certainly
not by intention. The gratitude of medical women to this association
cannot therefore be overstated, and I think I am justified in saying
that the same is true with regard to medical men. If their chief
"Union" had not admitted women we might unwittingly