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Page 34
... nurse who was with her told her the end was near , she clasped her hands together and exclaimed , " Thank God , thank God . " They were her last words . She was buried at Caister ; the tombstone which marks her grave bears an ...
... nurse who was with her told her the end was near , she clasped her hands together and exclaimed , " Thank God , thank God . " They were her last words . She was buried at Caister ; the tombstone which marks her grave bears an ...
Page 69
... nursing in England can hardly have been said to exist . Almost every one had a well - founded horror of the hired nurse ; she was often ignorant , cruel , rapacious , and drunken ; and when she was not quite as bad as that , she was ...
... nursing in England can hardly have been said to exist . Almost every one had a well - founded horror of the hired nurse ; she was often ignorant , cruel , rapacious , and drunken ; and when she was not quite as bad as that , she was ...
Page 70
... nursing , or what not , by the light of nature , and without any special teaching and preparation whatever . There is still some temptation on the part of women to fall into this fatal error . A young woman , not long ago , who had ...
... nursing , or what not , by the light of nature , and without any special teaching and preparation whatever . There is still some temptation on the part of women to fall into this fatal error . A young woman , not long ago , who had ...
Page 71
... nursing before she considered herself qualified to under- take the sanitary direction of even a small hospital . She went from place to place , not confining her studies to her own country . She spent about a year at the hospital and ...
... nursing before she considered herself qualified to under- take the sanitary direction of even a small hospital . She went from place to place , not confining her studies to her own country . She spent about a year at the hospital and ...
Page 72
... nurse or doctor . " If this is accurate , she did not err by burying her talent in the earth , and thinking that ... nursing home and hospital for governesses in Harley Street , an excellent institution , which at that time . had ...
... nurse or doctor . " If this is accurate , she did not err by burying her talent in the earth , and thinking that ... nursing home and hospital for governesses in Harley Street , an excellent institution , which at that time . had ...
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