Testimonies for the Church, Volume 9 - Ellen G. White

have many more women who can deal especially
with the diseases of women, many more lady
nurses who will treat the sick in a simple way
without the use of drugs.
It is not in harmony with the instruction given
at Sinai that gentlemen physicians should do the
work of midwives. The Bible speaks of women at
childbirth being attended by women, and thus it
ought always to be. Women should be educated
and trained to act skillfully as midwives and
physicians to their sex. This is the Lord's plan. Let
us educate ladies to become intelligent in the work
of treating the diseases of their sex. We ought to
have a school where women can be educated by
women physicians to do the best possible work in
treating the diseases of women. Among us as a
people the medical work should stand at its highest.
In Loma Linda we have an advantageous center
for the carrying on of various missionary
enterprises. We can see that it was in the
providence of God that this sanitarium was placed
in the possession of our people. We should
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