Sister Dora : a biography / by Margaret Lonsdale.

  • Lonsdale, Margaret
Date:
1895
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Credit: Sister Dora : a biography / by Margaret Lonsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mother, for having none. She used to say she was my mother, but she used to say that to all of us. After attending to me first in a morning she used to fetch them water to wash, and make all the beds unless there was a patient in so bad as to need a night nurse, when she would help, after that she would serve breakfast around to us then she would have her's then prayers after which she would go round and dress all wounds ready for the Doctor to come round. In the afternoon she would attend to the outpatients, dress their wounds set a broken arm sow up a cut or draw teeth in fact any thing that was required of her she would do and always with the tenderest care and the kindest word to all. And besides aU this there would often come a drunken man or woman who had been fighting and call her from her bed at aU hours and often with nothing but a mere scratch, and with all that I never heard her complain any more than say 'it's too bad, is'nt it' that was only in such cases a.<? drunken fights and not then if it was anything serious but sympathise with them and express her sorrow for them. And beside all this she used to see to the coming in and going out of every thing. When she had a bit of spare time from all this she would repair sheets, &c or cut out and make shirts for the patients or read to them or find some game of amusement or tell us a tale some times what she had witnessed in the out-patient
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