DRANNA POTTS IN ENGLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1567, 12 April 1887, Page 3

DRANNA POTTS IN ENGLAND.

The New York World has the following respecting Mrs Potts who visited N.Z. some years ago:—Perhaps the most gifted lady physician now in England is Mrs Dr| Anna Lougsbore-Potts, an American lady, formerly of Philadelphia. She has given popular lectures at Great St. James’ Hall, and special lectures to ladies only. Her audiences have been large and repregentatives, of the highest class of English society—many leading members of the nobility, and one or two members of the Royal Family—have been interested listeners. This lady has demonstrated the possibility of delivering popular medical lectures free from any trace of chicanery. She has astonished the beet medical minds of ths metropolis by her attainments. As might be expected, she is an advocate of dress reform, and yet, to show that the attractiveness of attire need not be sacrificed to health, she appears in elegant costumes made by Worth, while her laces and jewels have been frequently admired by the society papers here. She is a Quaker lady, who graduated at f he Women’s Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1852, since which time she has been in the constant practice of her profossic. BLe is below the medium stature, of pleasing presence, yet bearing the traces of hard intellectual labor. The ladies of England are enraptured with her. They are raising a fund—which has already attained considerable proportions—to establish a memorial in America to the memory of Dr Joseph Longshore, her brother, the founder of the Women’* College of Philadelphia, the first institution In the world for the medical education of women. Dr Longshore-Potts will visit Africa and India this year, and may lecture in Boston and New York in 1888. Her income is oaid to be upwards of £1.5,000 a year.