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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    collier fell out of bed (not an uncommon event), she asked no one to help her, but picked him up as if he had been a baby, and put him back again. With these manifold strains on her strength, work- ing all day, sitting up at night, taking little food, little rest, and a very rare holiday, it was impossible to discover that her health suffered The surgeon considered that she set all kinds of fractures better than general practitioners (probably because she had more practice), and he used to aflw-m that a broken thigh would most likely be better dealt with by her than by himself A boy came up to the hospital one day, having just chopped off one of his fingers. Where's the finger ? inquu-ed Sister Dora. It's at home, replied the boy. You stupid feUow ! Go and fetch it this moment, and mind you are quick! On the production of the missing article, she set the fracture, and the surgeon bears witness that the finger healed perfectly, and became useful. She took a peculiar delight in the mechanical part of such operations, and he well remembers her openly expressed pleasure when she first made the discovery, by means of his explanation, of the peculiar action of the muscles in the toes and fingers. Well, now, and isvlt that wonderful! was her exclamation. As her knowledge of tlie human frame became more and more exact, her admiration and wonder, as well as her reverence for it, increased. She would have passed a first-rate examination in
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