TO CUBE HYSTERIA.
"An attack of byiteria simulating unconsciousness in a woman may be stopped" (says Modern Medicine) by the surgeon's taking a pair of scissors aud regretfully announcing that he will have to cut all the patient's hair off in order to make application to her head. It is doubtful whether this bluff has ever been known to fail." Miss Edith Thomeycroft Fowler, whose witty uovel "Concerning Isabel Carnaby" mot with great favour in England four years ago — and also in Australia — is (writes the London correspondent of the Age, under date 7th February) shortly to bo married. Her engagement was one of the interesting society announcements of the week. She is the elder daughter of Sir Henry Fowler, the wollknown Liberal politician, who was Prosidert* of the Local Government Board in Mr. Gladstone's last Ministry. The engagement of his second daughter, who emulated her sister ai a writer, of fiction, it also announaa
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Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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155TO CUBE HYSTERIA. Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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