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and a Boston doctor steal the credit of his work. She has seen medical science and scientific sanitation cut down the death rate of civilized cities by more than half, and she has seen these agencies set bounds to the European march of the cholera and imprison the black death in its own home. She has seen woman freed from the oppression of many burdensome and unjust laws; colleges established for her, privileged to earn degrees in men���s colleges���but not get them; in some regions rights accorded to her which lift her near to political equality with man; and a hundred bread winning occupations found for her where hardly one existed before��� among them medicine, the law and professional nursing. The Queen has herself recognized the merit in her sex. Of the 501 lordships which she has conferred in sixty years, one was upon a woman. The Queen has seen the right to organize the trade unions extended to the working men, after that right has been the monopoly of guilds of masters for 600 years. She has seen the workman rise into political notice, then into political force, then (in some parts of the world) into the chief and commanding political force. She has seen the day���s labor of twelve, fourteen and eighteen hours reduced to eight, a reform which has made labor a means of extending life instead of a means of committing salaried suicide. HYLAND 16