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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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGES News of the battle of the Alma—French Sisters of Charity—The first application to Miss Nightingale— Party spirit yields to the spirit of charity—Departure of the first band of English nurses—The battles of Balaclava and Inkermann—A summons for more nurses—Formation of a second band—Details of cos- tume—Terms of agreement with the Government . 1 to 15 CHAPTER II. The nurses at London Bridge Station—The Boulogne fishwomen—Passage down the Rhone to Valence— Avignon—Marseilles—A stormy night—Stromboli —Messina and its scenery — The Cathedral — A second storm—At anchor off the Piraeus—The plains of Troy—Les Soeurs de la Charite—The Golden Horn and Constantinople—Extraordinary beauty of the scene—The hospitals—Impatience and disappoint- ment . . . 16 to 35 CHAPTER III. Therapia—Evils of the equality system—Christmas-day in Turkey—The Greek church at Therapia—The