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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    British and French naval hospitals, and the Sultan's palace: eventually this last became the British naval convalescent hospital, but at the time we were at Therapia they pos- sessed only the one building. On Christmas-day there was no English ser- vice. The chaplain being indisposed, prayers were read at home, and we adorned the rooms with green, sang carols, and tried to make ourselves believe it was really Christ- mas-day. Lady Stratford, with her well- known kindness, sent up mince pies and plum-pudding, with kind Christmas wishes. We were very grateful for her kind remem- brance of us, but our Christmas was a dreary one. The joyous sounds of English Christ- mases were ringing in our ears, and it was an oppressive thought to remember that through the length and breadth of that fair land, save from the few bodies of strangers who dwelt in it for a time, there went up no sounds of rejoicing for the glad tidings of