doctors at lincoln's bedside

[LincolnToddFan]

(02-14-2015 06:38 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  Fanny Seward did not think highly of Dr. Verdi, to say the least.

June 17, 1865
"This evening Eliza [family servant] told me something of Verdi's brutal treatment of her son's wife whom he attended at her first confinement - he behaved very ill - very ignorantly in treatment, & was so cruel as to curse her in all her pain. How detestable he grows!..."

He verbally abused a woman in labor?! Lovely. I agree with Betty, he sounds like a monster.

SpruceCreekHawk,

Not sure if I've ever asked before but who is the woman in your avatar? She is truly stunning!