INTERESTING BIT OF HISTORY

Sometimes you come across an article that just grabs your interest for no particular reason.

I came across this on a British computer page. It is about a great doctor from England that was a woman that passed herself off as a man so she could be a doctor. It's really interesting.

Revealed: Army surgeon actually a woman

By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent

Last Updated: 6:01pm GMT 05/03/2008

The mystery of the pioneering British Army surgeon who successfully fooled Victorian society into thinking she was a man throughout her extraordinary life has finally been solved.

Now previously unknown letters, highlighted in this week's New Scientist, have proved the diminutive physician who fought for better conditions for troops, shot a man in a duel and reached the top of "his" profession began life as the daughter of a grocer from Cork.