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(S)HE WAS SOUTH AFRICA'S FIRST MODERN DOCTOR.

Started by Natasha, July 26, 2009, 12:04:35 PM

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July 26, 2009, 12:04:35 PM
(S)HE WAS SOUTH AFRICA'S FIRST MODERN DOCTOR.

http://www.therichmarksentinel.com/rs_articles.asp?catid=1&recid=241
LYNDALL BEDDY
6/25/09

Dr James Barry, probably born Miss Margaret Bulkley, lived in an age which helped the deception. Fashionable men were dandies, dress was as important for men as for women - padded shoulder pads, high heels, ruffles and all the frills

(S)he also arrived at the Cape at an opportune time. Lord Charles Somerset, the only governor of the Cape who was a member of the aristocracy, had lost his beloved wife, with whom he had eloped when she was only 16, thanks to the bungling of a doctor. He was in the mood for a new young modern doctor to trust with the health of his two daughters, and the health of the colony.

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