The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-17
TWO QUEENS HOLD
. TITLE OF DOG TOR
Elizabeth Of Belgium and Amelie
of Portugal Are Both
Physicians.
MANY ENGLIs H ANNUlTIEs
Heirs Of Great Soldiers and Sail
ors Receive Immense Sums
. From the Treasury.
~ la MARQUIsE DE FONTENOY.
. UEEN ELIZABETH of Belgium,
like Queen Marie Amelie or
Portugal. is a full -nedRed ply

by la MARQUlsE DE FONTENOY.
~ UEl1N ELIZABETH of Belgium.
ID like Queen Marie Amelie OF
~ Portugal, is full nedged ply
~ sician, and entitled to practice
as such. also to add the mystic let
a diploma OF doctor OF medicine. con.
ferred upon her by tho University Of
Leipsic. after passing the necessary
examinations. Mention has already
one of the most skilled assistants OF
her father. the late Duke Charles
Theodore of Bavaria. so celebrated as
an oculist But nothing has been said.
so far as | have seen. of her being
not only able, but also officially quail
!lst. and also as an ordinary surgeon.
1t Us perfectly true that she has not
practiced since. her marriage. Butttho
experience which she gained through
through her work as assistant to her
| father both in his profession as an
oculist and in the management OF his
free hospital and dispensary at kreuth.
has enabled her to accomplish much
good in her role as a very active pat.
roness of the various hospitals and
analogous institutions in Brussels.
or Queen Marie Ameies excellent
work in Tho land of her adoption.
where she has done so much to abate
| silC IdShSGS VI dipIltueIid' VIM 80
one Of the most cruel scourges Of Lis.
bon, subiecting both herself and her
| sons to antitoXin incubation. in or
der to remove the popular prejudice
| against this form of preventive. mem
ton has frequently been made In these
| letters. If the bubonic pest was re-
/ stricted to relatively few cases at
Lisbon, instead OF becoming epidemic
| there. as was feared. it was due main
| ~ to Queen Marie Amelie who herself
IF h. !, al MI " -
who succumbed to the rlalady. con-
tracted while endeavoring to relieve
its victims. Indeed, Queen Marie Ame-
lie has done so much good In this way,
besides founding, endowing. organizing
and personally managing all sorts OF
institutions for the relief of suffering.
that she ought to be almost idoltzed
by the Portuguese, instead of being
abused as foreigner. incapable Of
| Understanding orappreciating them.
To Queen Elizabeth of Roumania tho
people of that prosperous kingdom are
Indebted for the wonderful institutions
for the blind, which she created in va
rious parts of her husbands domintons.
frequent. While she has no medical
degree she has made thorough study
| of everything relating to ophthalmolo-
| Ey, in addition to which she knows all
about the management of hospitals and
| especially about the caring for tho
| wounded holding, indeed, diploma
as a trained army nurse.
This is a distinction shared by Queen
| Eleanor of Bulgaria who as Princess
of Reuss was in personal charge OF
the hospital train out in Manchuria,
| throughout the war between Japan
and Russia, and who since her mar.
riage TO King Ferdinand has inau-
gurated all sorts Of philanthropic en-
terprises, including institutions for tho
blind and for crippled children at So
fla, as we'll as a scheme of visiting
nurses. who care for the poor In child
birth and in sickness, in their own
be difficult. indeed. to find on any
throne or in any niche of history. four
more useful Queens. Queens who have
done moro to relieve suffering among
their fellow-creatures. than Elizabeth
of Belgium, Marie Amelie of Portugal.
Elizabeth of Roumania. and Eleanor
| of BULGARIA.