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Mock-Nurses of the Latest Fashion, A.d. 1900; Professional Experiences, in Short Stories and the Nursing Question - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III WHO BEGAN IT? The reader who has learned to apprize the personal merits and accomplishments of the devil in petticoats, who as nurse or nurseattendant has contrived to gain admission to the chamber of the sick and the household, who has also followed the husbandhuntress and trapper in her nursing business, possessing attractions and qualifications all her own--the reader having this advanced knowledge in studying the possibilities of womankind to be found in Nurseland, will be prepared for introduction to an allied rival of the latest fashion. That husband, recovering from a long illness, through which he has been taken by the hand of a skilled and faithful nurse; that confiding wife, her heart filled with overflowing gratitude to her who, in fulfilling the duties of a beneficent calling, has restored the well-nigh lost one to the rightful owner's arms and to the home circle--each and all alike ought to know and appreciate at her full worth the nurse of another species who may be in their midst. It was my professional privilege to become acquainted with quite a typical representative of this nurse species, who, with the nurse-attendants whose characters I have already sketched in portions of their lifehistory, might be designated 'Perfect Womanhood He versed.' Called down to Twickenham, near Richmond, Surrey, to do an operation for the cure of a common but lingering surgical complaint in the lower region of the body, a young woman as nurse awaited my arrival with the ansesthetist to render the patient insensible to an otherwise painful procedure. The patient, a silversmith in the City (London), with a partner-nephew, known as (Mr.) Podgers and Son, had been very suecessful in business. By the plodding industry of a shrewd matter-of-fact man, M...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1459051939
- ISBN 13 9781459051935
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages34
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