DR ANNA POTTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1362, 28 December 1885, Page 2

DR ANNA POTTS.

Dr J. 0. Gilbert, an American lecturer, now in Wellington, writes as follows to the Evening Press ; —Under the heading of “ Who is Mrs Dr Potts?” I notice yon wish to be told something about him or her. I happen to know eomething of Mrs Potts. 1 know she is quite a clever woman and a graduate of the Medical University o f Philadelphia; that she has been married ; has a family of children, who mnst be nearly or quite of age now, who call her mother; and that people, including the medical faculty and others who know her and have known her for years, never doubted that she was a woman. I may say I am nqt Mrs Potts’s champion—am not even her friend-and I do not believe in her qnaok practice of medicine, because t do not believe in the drag system of medication—although I believe she has as good a right to drug people as other doctors have,—bat I deem it only dae to the public to state what 1 know on information which 1 deem as reliable as that which convinces me that Queen Yiotpria is a woman; and 1 trust that, no “ venerable” or other females will go into hysterics over the humbugging assumption that Mrs Potts is not a woman. I may say for the information of those who are anxious to know the facts about Mrs Potts that they may obtain aU the information they desire by writing to the medical faculty of the Medical University at Philadelphia; and I judge it would bo quite as manly to do this before publishing ss to slander a woman in her absence, and when it is out of her .power to defend herself. I trust yon will pardon this tr-spass on yonr space for the sake of the troth and lair play