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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 417
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1854 44 The to account Dec 1 before 1855 . us The gives the history told of us one muc year h of , viz reinforcement . from Dec s . of 1 , newspapers
troops , which have . were the , introduced icture of the from arrival time of to successive time within detachments the Russian of Sisters lines . Here we p
of Mercy . X use the term of Sisters as generall fur the y descri honoring ptive . of the The Cross title in used the in Care the
narrative of iven the in Wounded the is , instruction ' Community and Sick s to ; the ' and Superintendent the end and aim ( Oberinn of the ) : association 6 out of the is motive thus
hosp Ij g of ord warm itals Jesus , love to assist Christ of our with nei , in activity ghbor the , tending and according with Christian of honest to the the consolation sick self instructions -denial and those wounded , in of the whom the name in ph they ysicians military of tend our ,
andbesides this , to strengthen by in the , It midst at the of their end of sufferings ] SJ " ovemb . ' 1854 that the first detachmentconsisting of
p twenty ro " strated was -eight by sisters typhus , fever arrived ; and at those Simferopol , for who , their escaped . Many sick the sisters of infection them were he , were work presentl obliged y
to devote their strength to caring . Twas renewed On the 13 in th Baktchiserai of January , ; their but again ministrations with the began same disheartening where the pressing interruption calami- . side of and about
ties of war were most urgent , viz . on the south Sebastopol ; this account time of they the systematic were joined distribution by the second of their detachment servicesunder . Here the we direction have an of
to Dr the . FirogofF immediate . They wants were of divided the wounded into three , preparing companies bandages , —those and who bindin attended g up of medicinesand
• wounds , ( die Verbandschwestern f ) those who took care , were responsible and those who for discharged their orderl the y and duties regular of nursing distribution the washing , ( die Apothekerinneji and diet of the _,- )
patients Wirthinnen , and . ) ' whatever On the 17 was th of connected January , with the third the cleanliness detachment , under of Sister came the hosp , under Budberg itals Sister , ( die
_JBakunin These two ; and names on the appear 28 th prominentl of March , y the afterwards fourth , in the most v painful . and .
exciting " Names parts very of the familiar narrative to . us—the _NicolajefF Battery—the _North Fort To —Inkermann give it consecutivel —the MalakofF y and in —occur detail in would various occupy parts too of much this touching space . Three story .
scenes " One may of be the briefl most y noted dreadful , as was samp in les that of the hosp whole ital . where those cases were received Here Sisters which Gri were gorjeff hopeless danoff , and _^ and in which Golubzoff gangrene patientl had y went supervened through .
the ' hardest and most thankless , Bog offices of the Sisterhood , and such as require the added highest that grade of to self whom -denial such , as well things as the onl stronges come b t health hearsay . ' It can is reall truly y
know and terror the horrors — no sights one of the such most an office hideous , or and appreciate revolting and y of its the — devotion delirium y Priest . , Cries de , the spair of Monk , pain and
death Benjamin , were , ' who the familiar is mentioned life of here these as Sisters discharg , ing the duties one of his , office ' in
this wounded " From particular were this hosp we being may ital continuall . pass to y the broug l activel arg ht e , from operation and the incessantl - fourth room , , into fifth , which and loyed sixth day the
bastions and blood of the ni — ght th , and . e noise The ( which where elements of b the ursting Sisters of inch the shells were deep p — icture groans under here y foot and are ) mang ming litters led led with limbs bespattered y emp the —the fumes steam with of
chloroform _sarried gore in and —the out doors with was opening the an short and word shutting of order —and , ' on wounded the table men , ' ' on continuall the bed y , *
l hen to ilentl thi at y s to hosp ni and ht ital fro the , ' , 'to among whole that the hosp made grey ital more ' military —the dismal white cloaks b mantles the of officers li of ht the of and Sisters candles men moving — and and _; y g
anterns . Here g , too , to complete the picture , must be mentioned PaskewitscH
Notices Of Books. 417
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 417
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 417, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/57/
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