In August and September 1871, she was seriously ill with an abscess in her arm, which Joseph Lister successfully lanced and treated with his new antiseptic carbolic acid spray.
Entre agosto e setembro de 1871 a raíña estaba gravemente doente debido a un absceso no brazo, que Joseph Lister conseguiu tratar con éxito grazas ao seu novo spray de acedo carbólico antiséptico.