panurgy

Updated: August 7, 2026

At little tables, mute records of disreputable nights, sat women stitching, and outside the streets of Montmartre were as silent as the grave. A few days later I was introduced to a case of panurgy that would have been almost extreme in any but a Frenchwoman. Madame Camille Lyon took me to call on Madame Pertat, one of the most successful doctors in Paris.

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton - The Living Present