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FLOBENOE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ENGLISH SOL...
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+ To The Well-Known Services Of Miss Nig...
us always in the sick and poor . " Attention has been drawn towards the class of women whose task it is to nurse the sick of England .
These pages will in some degree show how unfitted they are for that responsible office ; for though a military hospital was the worst
imaginable position in which to place them , yet those who were unable to resist its temptations are certainly unfitted for their present
occupation . * * * It is not for military hospitals alone that we want better nurses . * * * Many who will read these pages have perhaps
never passed within hospital walls ; many more , if they have done so , have paid their visit at appointed times "when all looked its best .
But others as well as myself have learnt our experience of hospital work from more authentic sources . We have lived in hospital
wards , going there for the purpose of preparing ourselves—first , to undertake the nursing of the poor at home , and again when about to
proceed to the East . We placed ourselves under the hospital nurses , receiving our instruction from them , and , thus being possessed of no
authority over them , were admitted behind the scenes of hospital life ; and what we saw there—of disobedience to medical orders and
cruelty to patients—would fill pages , and make those who read them shudder ! Shudder , as we often have done when we saw some little
innocent child , "who from some terrible accident had been brought into the hospital , exposed to that atmosphere of evil . More evil was
heard in one hour in a [ London hospital than would meet one ' s ears during months passed in a military one . "
A sad picture this , but one whose truth is not to be doubted . Valuable as are the services hitherto rendered by Miss
_Nightingale , she has yet a crowning one to add in the organization and establishment of a training school for nurses . May we not hope
that the time is at hand , when , recruited in health and strength , she will avail herself of the means placed at her disposal by her grateful
countrymen and women , and perpetuate her deeds of loving kindness and mercy by founding a new order of true Sisters of Charity ,
who , for love of God in man and man in God , for the high uses of humanity , will emulate the beneficent works of that order
established by St . Vincent de Paul in 1660 , of whom Voltaire exclaimed , thatif anything could make him believe in Christianity , it would
be such , deeds as those wrought by the Sceurs de la Charite .
M . M . H .
Flobenoe Nightingale And The English Sol...
_FLOBENOE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ENGLISH SOLDIER . 79
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/7/
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