the impression made on her female friends by such a speedy recovery? did they feel quite pleased at it, and desirous that all others should be equally fortunate? No; but quite the contrary! She was actually thought deserving of _reprehension_, and was stigmatized as _vulgar_ in the extreme. One person even made the remark, that she must be _a very common person, and no Lady_! Now what a pitiable state of ignorance, and mental imbecility, these females must be in, to be actually _proud of their infirmities_; and yet they are but like the majority of their sex. If they were not so _unfortunate_ in not knowing their true interests, they would be highly culpable, but as it is they are truly deserving of our pity. It must be admitted, however, that though civilization has, so far, entailed these evils on women, it has also done much to alleviate them. Many diseases are beneficially modified, and some are even _cured_, by medical treatment; surgical science has also attained a high point of perfection; and the difficulties attendant on child birth are overcome to a great extent by obstetrical skill. But notwithstanding all this alleviation, these evils are still deplorably great. The utmost scientific skill to which society can ever attain, will do but little towards effectually relieving human suffering, and removing disease, so long as it is entirely devoted to the mere art of _curing_ and _palliating_ as it chiefly is now. Our knowledge of the human system, and of the causes which produce in it disease and deterioration, must be universally disseminated, so that the whole people may see _how these evils arise_, and how they should live, and conduct themselves, so as to _avoid them altogether!_ or, in other words, science should teach us how to _prevent_ disease and suffering, instead of merely how to alleviate them. Eventually this will be done, and our females will then pass through their travail as easily as their savage sisters do now. Let us hope that time will soon come; and let every one esteem it his duty, who possesses the ability, to hasten its coming, by doing all he can to spread the necessary information to those who need it. The happy exemption from difficulty and suffering which females enjoy in more uncultivated states of society, and which we believe they will ultimately enjoy universally, does not however obviate the necessity for assistance _now_, in our state of society, and we have therefore to explain how it can best be rendered.