Sick-nursing essentially a woman's mission : being an inaugural lecture on the qualifications for and the conduct of sick-nurses, delivered at the opening of the new school of nursing in Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, on May 1, 1877 / by Dyce Duckworth.

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1877
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    of these good women, and not unprofitable instruction for you, to record very briefly some of their qualities, and to discover the reasons of their success. Miss Nightingale, whose name and career naturally recur to our minds to-day, exciting in us now, as always, feelings of deep admiration, has declared that ‘ the perfection of surgical nursing may be seen practised by the old-fashioned Sisters of a London hospital as it can be seen nowhere in Europe.’ ^ This is surely very high testimony from a critical quarter. Let us see how it has been won within these walls, not only by surgical but also by medical Sisters, for there have not been wanting here types of the best of both. I naturally will not say anything about those who are working with us at the present time; but I may refer to the services of some of those who have laboured here during the past thirty or forty years, and who have retired from us, most of them, I think, to their long home. Perhaps none of these is better remembered than one ‘ Sister Hope,’ who was connected with St. Bartho- lomew’s for many years. She came here originally as a patient after sustaining an accident, and suffered amputation of one of her legs. On recovery she became a nurse and at last a Sister. She acted under Dr. Hue. It is told of her that she did her work with untiring zeal and faithfulness. After forty years’ service she retired on full pay. She was one of the last Sisters ^ Notes on Nursing. Harrison : Pall Mall, I860.