Miss Garrett is now an apothecary, having last week passed
her final examination at Apothecaries' Hall, and received a licence to practise. The Apothecaries' course includes a five years' apprentice- ship, a preliminary examination in arts, and two professional examinations, each comprising five subjects. Miss Garrett has satisfied precisely the same conditions to attain her licence as any masculine practitioner, and the chairman of the Apothecaries, in giving her her licence, complimented her on her preparation, expressing a wish that all men were as well prepared. She intends, we believe, to practise in the diseases of women and children, and will, we do not doubt, soon obtain a very useful practice. As another lady, a Miss Colborne, passed the preliminary examination in arts, Miss Garrett will probably not be long alone. The ' regular practitioners' are understood to feel a great jealousy of the ladies, just as the Irish in New York do of negro candidates for work ; and he will be a bold man who first consents to meet Miss Garrett in consultation. Let us hope the ladies may at least make the profession a little leas pompous, mysterious, and ostentatiously sympathetic. No woman will ever be able to look so wise and benevolent over " our little patient," or translate its stomach-ache into so many hard words, as the ordinary practitioner. They will feel too certain of being found out.
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