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AMERICAN WOMEN AND HOSPITALS. 155
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until hers She elf manages the , ni terrible ght , and thoug reverses day h , never in at the Fredericksburg robust great , to hosp get to : along death after Washing pretty that and , she taken well is
so overtaskedthat she is brought near , home . her Slowl tim y , e she in preparing recovers ; and from during letters her written convalescence to her sister she
passes during her life in the hospital , , little sketches of her experience
American Women And Hospitals. 155
AMERICAN WOMEN AND HOSPITALS . 155
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/11/
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