A REMARKABLE WOMAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1437, 21 December 1886, Page 3

A REMARKABLE WOMAN.

A woman wi’h a remarkable oarcar has lately died in Cochin China. S* 0 wis known as Madama D- - Rlbart, and was a aargeon rf considerable ak-11, while I.B' experience wra one that no other woman had ever had. Beginmn jaa a waitress in a little drinking shop of the Quart ias Latin of Paris, sh* passed, wbt:e atilt very young, th-ough the usual experiences of a Parisian gr's?fe, and became cmnected with a medical student who frequented the shop. Her Instinct was irresis'ib;e. No s r oner*did shoe Kite in contact with his books and Instruments than she fell upon them and literally devoured the contents. She availed herBelf of his teachir g to'*, and dr?w from him everything he learned, «o that by the time she had reached the age of twentysix fha presented her o f for examination as a surgeon, rnd psred the ordeal brilliantly and triumphantly, fhe soon recognised the fieM that lay open before her In the Egyptian harems, to which male surgeons were not admitted, and where women suffered unspeakable torments for the lack of proper attendance. At Cairo she speedily estab ished a large practice, and had every prospect of doing wall, but her newly-f umed habits of dissipation hsd become rooted and were unc nqoerab e. Sh~ plunged into inconceivable debaucheries. Her career of vice brought her to an Egyptian roadhouse. After fix months of this severe but salutary regia en she recovered her min ’. She mode her way out to the French colons m Cochin Calna Hero her ta’ents and her beauty won her instant recognition. The old Queen Mother-of Annam had been blind for years and htiled with delight the prospect .4 relief he’d out t her by the French phyaioian Madame Pibift, however, died suddenly the day before the operation waa t’h? performed. Probably no Earop : ’»a-woman ever kmv i - much of the inner life of the harem id the hast and Us dark side as this cx« fcfisette.—^wropcm