Lady Doctors.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7213, 18 May 1898, Page 4

Lady Doctors.

("F.-F.M." in the Illustrated London News.) Though English womea are making their way, they do not seem to have established themselves, as the American women doctors have, as " the family physician." In the States it is quite usual for a lady doctor to be called in for the entire household as required, the- father -included ; and it is thought no more out of the common than it is here to have a strange female come to nurse the head of the house, in need. Last* season I met the onstor of one of the leading Brooklyn churches, who was travelling in Europe for rest on. the family doctor's recommendation, his congregation haying on that recommendation presented him with a purse of money and long leave of absence: his daughter' quite casually indicated in the course of conversation: that the doctor in point was a laiiy. " Oh, yes, mother would uot feel any confidence in anybody else for father," she Baid in answer to my surprise. Again an American lady doctor told me how she: had been left a legacy by a young man who had "broken a blood-vessel'' in a New "Sorkhotel.and over whom shehadwatched with sisterly care until his death. "How did von come to attend him ,?'? I .asked. " Why my office was the nearest to.,the hotel, so of course they ran for me," she answered, with perfect simplicity—the feeling that would certainly make an hotel porter here ran P asfc a °ynnmber of nearby plates with the names of lady doctors ■when seeking one for a si.ok man, iras. evidently sirarige to her ideas. M .