Outlines of nursing historyW.B. Saunders, 1916 - 370 pages |
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American nurses Army Asylum beds began Bellevue Boston CHAPTER charge Charlotte Macleod City Cloth course Crimea deaconesses disease district nursing doctors doubtless England Fliedner Florence Nightingale Germany give graduate nurses head nurse hospital nursing Hospital Review hundred India insane Isabel Hampton Robb Kaiserswerth Lady Lillian Wald Linda Richards London Marie Zakrzewska McLean Asylum medicine methods midwives Miss Linda Richards Miss Nightingale modern months National native nurses Nurse and Hospital nurse's Nurses was established Nursing Association Obstetrics patients persons physicians pital practical private duty private nursing Red Cross Nurses Red Cross Society School for Nurses school nursing servants Sibley Memorial Hospital sick sisterhoods Sisters of Charity Spanish-American War SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT Superintendent of Nurses surgeons surgical teaching text-books tion trained nurse training-school training-school for nurses United untrained visiting nursing wards woman women wounded York
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Page 67 - On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall cast From portals of the past. A lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
Page 67 - Lo ! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless suflerer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.
Page 65 - ministering angel,' without any exaggeration, in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night, and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds.
Page 67 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Page 65 - She would speak to one and nod and smile to as many more ; but she could not do it to all, you know. We lay there by hundreds ; but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again, content.