DR ANNA POTTS IN ENGLAND

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1527, 7 April 1887, Page 3

DR ANNA POTTS IN ENGLAND

The " New York World" haa the following respecting Mra Potta who visited Auckland some years ago :— Perhaps the most gifted aod eucoes"ful lady phjaioian now In England is Mra Dr Anna L ng•hore Potts, an American lady, formerly of Philadelphia, Bha has giv«o popular lectures at Great St. James 'Hall, and special lectures to ladies only. Her audiences have been large and representative, of the highest olass of English ■ooletjr, many leading membsrs of the nobility. and one or two members of the Royal Family bating been intoresetod listeners. This lady has demonstrated the possibility of dellrerlag popular medical feotnres free from any traca of obicanery. She has astonished the best medioil minds cf the metropolis by her attainments. As might ba expected, aheis an advocate of draw reform, and yet, to show that the •ittraotWaness of attire neud not be jaorifioed to health, she appears m elegant •eoafamei nude by Worth, while her laces and jewels have been frequently admired bf the society papers here. She is a Qdaker lady, wl# go lasted at the Women's Medical Oohege, Pniladelpbia, In '1852, slnoe whioh time she has been m the oonstant praotioe of her profession. fib* if below the medium stature, of pleasing presence, yet bearing .the traces of hard Intellectual labor. The ladies of Sngland are enraptured with her. They •re raising a fond — which has already Attained considerable proportions — to es> tablish a memorial m America to the memory of Dr Joseph Longshore, her brother, the founder of the Women's College of Philadelphia, the firat institution In the world for the medleal eduoalion of women. Dr Longshore-Potta will Tlfllt Africa and India tbia year, and may lecture In Boston and Na*r York m 1888, Her Income Is said to be upwards of a year.