Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'I have heard that Miss Martineau's connections are greatly vexed by the publicity given to the case [of Martineau's having been apparently cured of an ovarian cyst by mesmerism] [...] The medical men who attended her [...] are said to be both furious & incredulous. Most unpleasant of all is, they have put her medical case in very bare hideous language, I hear, into the Medical Gazettes from whence it has been copied into some Evening papers. Papa who saw it, was lamenting it much. "No man wd like it" he observed, -- "much less a woman. They quite turn her inside out."'