Gallant Doctor

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 13 (Supplement)

Gallant Doctor

For two years a brave woman doctor made notes and comments on her own Bufferings.

Now that she has passed away these notes may prove of inestimable value to research workers in their quest for cures for obscure nervous diseases.

The doctor, Florence Robinson, aged 65, of Withington, Manchester, suffered in silence after she had diagnosed her own illness and pronounced it incurable.

With that diagnosis mnde, Dr. Robinson, who was joint founder of the Duchess of York Hospital for Babies, Manchester, know her work was finished. She withdrew from her position as honorary physician to the hospital, and began to prepare for tho end.

Her mind was clenr; her medical skill unaffected, and she watched the progress of her own illness. As the months dragged by sho recorded faithfully tho onset of each progressive symptom, and the development of each facet of her pain. "])r. Ilobinsori was n courageous and wonderful woman," Miss Margaret .Tones, matron of tho Duchess of York Hospital, said. "bhe received few visitors, but from the letters she wrote me, I knew that her interest in her work was just as great as ever."