A REMARKABLE WOMAN.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7620, 18 December 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A REMARKABLE WOMAN.

A woman with a remarkable career has lately died in Cochin China. She was known as Madame Dr. Kibart, and was a surgeon of considerable skill, while her experience was one that no other woman hns ever had. Beginning as a waitress in a little drinking shop of tho Quartier Latin of Paris, she passed, whilo still very young, through the usual oxperifineos of a Parisinn grisette, and bocame connected with a medical student who frequented the shop. Her industry was irresistible. JS r o sooner did sho come in contact with his books and instruments than sho fell upon them and literally devoured the contents. Sho availed herself of his teaching too, and drew from him everything he 'learned,'' so that by the time Bhe had reached the age of twenty-sis she presented herself for examination as a surgeon, and passed the ordeal brilliantly and triumphantly. She soon recognised the field that lay open before her in the Egyptian harems, to whinh male surgeons were notadmitted, and where women suffered unspeakable torments for the lack of proper attendance. At Cairo she speedily established a large practice, and had every prospect of doing well, but her newly-formed habits of dissipation had become rooted and were unconquerable. She plunßed into inconceivable debi-.ucherics. Her career of vice brought h»r to an Egyptian madhouse. After six months of this severe but sanitary regimen sho recovered hei mind. She made her way ont tn the French colony in Cochin China. Here her talents and her beauty won her inßtant recognition. Tho Old Queen • Mother of Annani had been blind for years, and hail'd with delight, the prospect of rolieE held out to her by tho French physician. Madame llibart, however, died suddenly tho day before '■ the operation was to be performed. Probably no European women ever know so much of the innor life of the harem in the . East and its dark side as this ex-grisette. . — European Mail.