HER MAJESTY’S HEALTH.
On the 12th September the Queen drove out in the morning, attended by Lady Churchill ; and her Majesty again drove out in the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, aud attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald. The brief reports in the Court Circular, indicating the somewhat protracted and very severe indisposition oi the Queen, have been read with loyal sympathy and vague anxiety. Her Majesty iias, indeed, passed through a tiying and severe illness, from which she is now happily recovering. At the outset, her Majesty suffered, early in August, when at Osborne, from dislike of food, disturbance of rest, headache, general mala tec, and slight inflammation of the tonsil. The latter local trouble soon subsided ; but the heat of Osborne and Windsor proved very trying to the Queen, and she did not satisfactorily
recover her general health. The journey north was. however, borne well, and her Majesty slept better on the road than for several nights previously. On the 19th,
and for some days subsequently, the Queen suffered from very severe sore throat, interfering both with speech and the power of swallowing. As the throat improved the Queen began to. experience pain and swelling a little below the right arm ; the general health suffered severely, and for days her Majesty was unable to take any food. On 24th September, Mr Lister opened an abscess at the seat of the swelling ; it was of considerable size, but the subsequent progress was favourable. The improvement in her Majesty’s health during the past three days has been very decided. But although it is with heartfelt satisfaction that we are able to state that her Majesty is now believed to be in the path of complete recovery—an announcement which will be everywhere received with sympathetic and loyal pleasure —it must be remembered that convalescence from so severe a form of illness must be somewhat tedious, and that some time must necessarily elapse before the Queen can be as well as she was earlier in the year.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 58, 13 December 1871, Page 3
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