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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    as far as Sister Dora herself was concerned, if any visitors whom she was obliged to see, or any accidents came in at that time. Out-patients, who were treated every day, began to arrive at two o'clock, and truly their ' name was legion,' when it was no uncommon event for sixty or a hundred persons to pass through the little rooms in the course of one afternoon. It was a most interesting sight to watch Sister Dora with her out-patients. They had the greatest confidence in her skill, and with good reason. AU faces brightened whenever she approached; she generally knew all about them and then- circumstances—had perhaps nursed some of the family before as in-patients—and she always had a word of sympathy and advice for each. The doctors got tlirough their part of the work quickly, for they passed on to her such minor operations and dressings as are entrusted to ex- perienced dressers in large hospitals. The setting of fractures, and even the drawing of teeth, when no surgeon was present, were common operations to her. Her bandaging was so good that a sm-gcon at Birmingham caUed upon aU his students to admire, and to study as a model of exceUence, the bandaging of a man's head which was her handi- work. The treatment of the out-patients often took between two and three hours, so that the in-patients' tea at five o'clock had sometimes to be prepared by the servants, when neither Sister Dora
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