Volume 1

Eastern hospitals and English nurses : the narrative of twelve months' experience in the hospitals of Koulali and Scutari / by a lady volunteer.

  • Taylor, Mary Magdalen, 1832-1900.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Eastern hospitals and English nurses : the narrative of twelve months' experience in the hospitals of Koulali and Scutari / by a lady volunteer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGES —Classification of wards—Hospital diet arrangements —Sickness amongst the nurses .... 100 to HO CHAPTER VI. Establishment of an extra-diet kitchen—Rough luxuries —Dismissal of a nurse, and her attempt to commit suicide—Arrival of Irish soldiers at the hospital— Terrible cases of frost-bite—Private Fitzgerald—News of the death of the Russian emperor—An earthquake —The Russian prisoners—Distressing cases of de- lirium—Zeal and admirable conduct of the Sisters of Mercy llltol31 CHAPTER VI.* Scenes in the nurses’ room—An impertinent orderly— A minor misery—The strange interpreter—The hungry soldier—Miss Smythe’s illness—Her death— The grave in a strange land—Miss Stanley’s depar- 1m e for England—Preparations for new arrivals— Change of quarters—Unwearied zeal of the Sisters of Mercy—The “Times” Commissioner—The dangerous person—Longing of the sick for fresh fruit—Mr. Stow’s death 132tol51 CHAPTER VII. New arrivals—Appointment of a Lady Superintendent —Illness of the last lady of Miss Stanley’s band— The “Home” on the Bosphorus—Another earth- quake—The plague of rats—The routine of an English nurse s life in an Eastern hospital—Mr. Stow’s last visit—Commencement of night-work—Turkish cere- monial and hare<±m hospitality—Dancing girls . ]52to 178 CHAPTER VIII. Arrangement of the wards—Details of management The jarring question—Better times—Gratitude of the