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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    years, yet lier health does not seem to have suffered. In 1872 the following description was written of her, by a lady who was staying in the neighbour- hood of Walsall, and who had heard of the fame of Sister Dora's deeds :— We have been to see the celebrated Sister Dora, and I must tell you about her at once. ' Cottage Hospital' is hardly the name for it, for Walsall is an enormous place; and there are something like a score of beds, with only Sister and one paid nurse (Mrs. H ), and two or three scrubber folk, to look after them. I wish you had been with us ! She is a tall, black-haired, handsome woman, brim- ming over with fun and energy. I think the most striking part of her is the way she picks out the humorous side of everything she tells one, and laughs over it so heartily, that the first moment I thought her unfeeling. But then the next minute she had brought tears into my eyes, and I saw that her sense of humour must be the greatest blessing and help to her in the midst of such melancholy scenes. Such things she told us! pouring them out one after another as if it were a treat to have friends to chatter to. On Saturday, at midnight, a man was brought in with his throat cut, dead to all appearance. He had cut his sweetheart's throat first, and all the doctors were with her, for he had rushed away into the fields, and had not been found for some time. So Sister Dora sewed up his
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