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Nightingale (Florence, reformer of Army Medical Services and of nursing organization, 1820-1910) Facsimile photo-lithographed letter annual address to to the probationary nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas Hospital and elsewhere, 12pp. & envelope addressed to Miss bath, Devon & Exeter Hospital, 8vo, n.p., 28th May 1900, "My dear children... Always keep up the honour of this honourable profession... The change in the treatment of Pneumonia - disease of the lungs - is complete. I myself saw a Doctor take up a child sufferer, which seemed as if it could hardly breathe - carry it to the window, open the window at the top, & hold it up there. The nurse positively yelled with horror. He only said, 'When my patient can breathe but little air, I like that little good.' The child recovered & lived to old age," folds.
⁂ Scarce.
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Nightingale (Florence, reformer of Army Medical Services and of nursing organization, 1820-1910) Facsimile photo-lithographed letter annual address to to the probationary nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas Hospital and elsewhere, 12pp. & envelope addressed to Miss bath, Devon & Exeter Hospital, 8vo, n.p., 28th May 1900, "My dear children... Always keep up the honour of this honourable profession... The change in the treatment of Pneumonia - disease of the lungs - is complete. I myself saw a Doctor take up a child sufferer, which seemed as if it could hardly breathe - carry it to the window, open the window at the top, & hold it up there. The nurse positively yelled with horror. He only said, 'When my patient can breathe but little air, I like that little good.' The child recovered & lived to old age," folds.
⁂ Scarce.
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