. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . r • / _ i %. rr -« K- __ .-__=_ _ * K. HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY BUILT BY H. H. THE MAHARAJAH OF DARBHUNGA. COUNTESS DUFFERIN FUND FOR FEMALE MEDICAL Ml> 459 approval, while the response from municipalities was equal-ly encouraging. Certain objections, however, reached LadyDufferins ears. Here are her own words concerning Borneof them, with her half-satirical and pungent way of meetingthem: ••The idea was indeed so kindly received that very few obj<tions or unfavorable criticisms were made upon it. It may, how-ever, be well to say
. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . r • / _ i %. rr -« K- __ .-__=_ _ * K. HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY BUILT BY H. H. THE MAHARAJAH OF DARBHUNGA. COUNTESS DUFFERIN FUND FOR FEMALE MEDICAL Ml> 459 approval, while the response from municipalities was equal-ly encouraging. Certain objections, however, reached LadyDufferins ears. Here are her own words concerning Borneof them, with her half-satirical and pungent way of meetingthem: ••The idea was indeed so kindly received that very few obj<tions or unfavorable criticisms were made upon it. It may, how-ever, be well to say something with regard to those that havecome before me. A few persons maintain that the women !this country do see medical men professionally. In reply to this,I think I may safely say that they never do except 111 the lastextremity, and that the doctor so admitted to a zenana enterswith his head in a bag, or remains outside t he purdah, feeling bispatients pulse, but unable to make any of the necessary examinations. Others simply state that the women donol want doctors;it all. an
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