[Transcriber's Note: Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end.]
A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor;"
or,
A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D.
Late of Berlin, Prussia
Edited ByCaroline H. Dall,
Author of "Woman's Right To Labor,"
"Historical Pictures Retouched," &c. &c.
                        "Whoso cures the plague,
  Though twice a woman, shall be called a leech."
  "And witness: she who did this thing was born
  To do it; claims her license in her work."
  Aurora Leigh.
1860.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
 Walker, Wise,and Co.
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusetts.
To the Hon. Samuel E. Sewall, Faithful Always To "Women And Work," and Oneof the Best Friends of The New-England Female Medical College, The EditorGratefully Dedicates This Volume.
  "The men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry,
  'A woman's function plainly is ... to talk.'"
               "What
  He doubts is, whether we can do the thing
  With decent grace we've not yet done at all.
  Now do it."
               "Bring your statue:
  You have room."
  "None of us is mad enough to say
  We'll have a grove of oaks upon that slope,
  And sink the need of acorns."
Preface.
It is due to myself to say, that the manner in which the Autobiography issubordinated to the general subject in the present volume, and also themanner in which it is veiled by the title, are concessions to themodesty of her who had the best right to decide in what fashion I shouldprofit by her goodness, and are very far from being my own choice.
Caroline H. Dall.
49. Bradford Street, Boston,
Oct. 30, 1860.
Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor"
It never happens that a true and forcible word is spoken for women, that,however faithless and unbelieving women themselves may be, some noble mendo not with heart and hand attempt to give it efficiency.
If women themselves are hard upon their own sex, men are never so inearnest. They realize more profoundly than women the depth of affectionand self-denial in the womanly soul; and they feel also, with crushingcertainty, the real significance of the obstacles they have themselvesplaced in woman's way.
Reflecting men are at this moment ready to help women to enter widerfields of labor, because, on the one side, the destitution and vice theyhave helped to create appalls their consciousness; and, on the other, aprofane inanity stands a perpetual blasphemy in the face of the Most High.
I do not exaggerate. Every helpless woman is such a blasphemy. So, indeed,is every helpless man, where helplessness is not born of idiocy orcalamity; but society neither expects, provides for, nor defends, helplessmen.
So it happened, that, after the publication of "Woman's Right to Labor,"generous men came forward to help me carry out my plans. The best printerin Boston said, "I am willing to take women into my office at once, if youcan find women who will submit to an apprenticeship like men." On the sameconditions, a distinguished chemist offered to take a class of women, andtrain them to be first-class apothecaries or scientific observers, as theymight choose. To these offers there were no satisfa                        
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