'Canine nursing was, like human nursing, an occupation towhich women - and not men - were constitutionally suited; MacRae Frost contended that men “lack the requisite sympathy, patience, and gentleness of touch and manner of the woman.” [note: 'Collins and Campbell, How to Save Our Dogs, 68–69; Eva Gamarnikov, “Nurse or Woman: Gender and Professionalism in Reformed Nursing 1860–1923,” in Anthropology and Nursing, ed. Pat Holden and Jenny Littlewood (London, 1991), 110–29.']' (301)