 In a widely discussed 1868 article in the Hospitals Gazette, Dr. Henri Montanier wrote, "To make a woman a doctor, it is necessary to make her lose her sensitivity, her timidity, her modesty, harden her to the sight of the most horrible and frightening things.When the woman arrives at that, I ask myself, what remains of the woman?A being who is no longer either a young girl nor a woman; neither a wife, nor a mother."