DR HARRIET HUNT.

Waikato Times, Volume 459, Issue VIII, 27 April 1875, Page 3

DR HARRIET HUNT.

Ladies who adopt the medical profession will do well to take for their model Dr Harriet Hunt, of Boston, whose death is announced by the^ American papers. She was, it was stated, "as notable in appearance as in mind and character. * She was very short and chubby, and the difference between^ height and circumference in her case it would have puzzled a mathematician to guess. But her face beaded with intelligence, and her countenance radiated courage, and every look and motion declared indejjjendence. She did a great many eccentric things, And did not shrink from telling fashionable patient the exact truth, which was a hundred times harder to take than any compound she could prescribe. ' But her good-humour was unfailing, aild oftentimes her genial face and cheery voice ■Were better than a whole apothecary shop of medicines to a poor invalid. Dr Harriet Hunt was one of the first women in America who practised medicine, and the first to protest against paying a tax until permitted to vote. Her lectures were always

x**u uuuw/i nog uoroi £JU|/u.u»i. vu v***/ j»**.«— — , where she seemed out of place./ Boston is full of tales of her kindness, and her will provides that no bills shall be sent to her patients who are in arrears, and it shall be left to their discretion what they shall pay. She also directs that her house shall be left open for a time, that nothing " hasty or ill-timed shall take place in a spot so full of in* fluences," that friends and patients " may find still an open door to enter a home they have consecrated by their blessings." Fragrant flowers are to be distributed to the visitors, "whose aroma shall utter its language." If woman competes with man in this good-humoured fashion, the speedy downfall of that vile creature may be confidently expected.