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PAST AND PRESENT. 385 NURSING,
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United Salisbury Of infirmaries Kingdom is first , and many in hosp anti of itals which quity there are after are however the now two altog very great e small ther institutions 253 . in the
bequeathed to us by the Middle , Ages ; it was founded in 1716 . Westminster in 1733 the and Bristol Cambrid Royal ge in Infirmary 1719 ; Guy in 's 1735 in-172 ; between 1 , St . George which ' s ;
parts hosp year itals and of , the by 1797 the king , a piety dom series , or and of the twent these benevolence y-seven arose , of wer like individual e the erected first members in Christian different of and exerted them
society , who urged the claim of the sick poor , - part selves Such of to is his procure the lecture historical the necessary He account next funds deal given s . with by Dr the . Mart subject yn in of the hosp first ital
improvement and reform . ; of which the first and most important division Shall nurses is that of be nursing trained . in reliious orders or sisterhoods , such g
• as that of St . Vincent de Paul in the Roman Catholic Church , or under of the proper Kaiserwerth experienced Deaconesses superintendents among iven Protestants ? The to answer ; the or reli to simp ious this ly
question will almost inevitably be gaccording g bias closel of y involved the person in the who deepest replies interests to the , the queries most . cherished On a subject to beliefs form so ,
of different bodies of Christians , it is next to impossible a perfectly impartial judgment with wholl the y external irrespective facts of of the religious onl
con-Each siderations party , will and inevitabl dealing y seize on an individual instance of case misman and y - . agementwhether in institution managed by sisters or nurses ,
hold it her up , as si hatic gnificant testimony an of a false to theory excellence —and of where administration Mrs . Jameson and
gave Christian tenderness emp of treatmentanother writer will see nothing but stiff routine , chilly with selfishness , , blindly pursuin to g its own
paper salvation . It . must It is be a question fought out which practicall it is almost y on the useless field of work argue . on It
is other being under so foug the ht _" out princi , on ple the of one association side under . " . reli Looking gious rule at Eng , on land the
sisterhoods alone , , Dr . Mart The yn reckons which he twenty specifies -six is institutions that of St . John of Protestant ' s House ,
. one in Londonto which has been confided the entire nursing of King ' s College , italand in regard to which the following testimony
Hosp , is House given £ 1 by 100 the a steward which of the includes hospital all : the — "We female pay domestics St . John of ' s year
the House , , twenty ~> six , nurses , besides a number of probationers who intend are in training the , and and a reside staff of like about them half in a the dozen hosp ladie ital ; s the who plan super has - .
nurses , , much been in so operation that every six one years conn , and ected has worke with d us most would satisfactorily to be extremel to ; so y
end sorry . " if And the connexion one of the between hospital the physicians institutions affirms were that come " The sys an - .
Past And Present. 385 Nursing,
PAST AND PRESENT . 385 NURSING ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 385, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/25/
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