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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22052, 7 September 1933, Page 16

How the husband of a high-caste Indian woman, who had been accidentally shot, refused to permit a doctor to remove her veil, was told by Dr Arthur Lankester, who has spent many years in India, at the annual conference of the British Commonwealth League in London. “The bullet was embedded in the woman’s neck,’’ said Dr Lankester. “ When I arrived I found her face covered with the usual veil. Her husband told me, ‘lf she dies it is God's will, but uncovered she shall not be * So I persuaded him to cut a small hole in the veil, freeing the woman’s nose, and another hole at the spot where the wound was. I administered the anassthetic and operated without ever seeing my patient. She made a good, recovery.”