WOMANLY SOLICITUDE.
The Horae correspondent of the Adelaide Observer writes :—“ At her Majesty’s second drawing-room the most interesting presentation made was that of Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson by her sister, Mrs Henry Fawcett. During the recent terrible illness of the Postmaster-General, his sister-in-law was one of the physicians constantly at his side, dividing the resident charge with the medical adviser to the family in ordinary; and it is impossible to exaggerate the double solicitude and responsibility which she experienced daring the long and fluctuating course of that devastating malady. No one has more x’eason to understand all the risk to the patient and prolonged suspense to watchers of typhoid fever than the highest lady in onr land; and I have heard on good authority that it was her Majesty’s own desire that Mr Garrett Anderson should be presented on an early opportunity after Mr Fawcett’s happy recovery. It will be remembered that at the outset of Mrs Anderson’s medical career, when lady doctors were by no means so popular in Court circles as they are now, the Princess Louise, then a very young lady, made a special visit to Mrs Anderson, in order to-give, expi-ession to the sympathy which she felt for her,’’
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Kumara Times, Issue 2117, 12 June 1883, Page 2
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