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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    give this beef-tea to your men. You must get your doctor to write a requisition for a tin of beef-tea ! Oh, very well, nurse, said the orderly, I will. But that is not all, replied she; at the same time get him to write a requisition for hot water! Our plan of thus helping the men was put a stop to by an order from Dr. Gumming, the inspector-general, that no cooking was to be done in the wards, and thus our only means of assisting the men was ended. We seldom dressed the wounds, as there were dressers who performed this office, and the greater number of our patients were eases of feyer and dysentery, who needed constant attention and nourishment, frequently ad- ministered in small quantities, and this we were now not suffered to give. All the diets not issued from Miss Nightingale's kitchen were of such a bad quality, and so wretchedly vol. i. a