Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / edited by A.F. Bradshaw.

  • Loch, Catharine Grace, 1854-1904.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / edited by A.F. Bradshaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1890] I have a strong conviction that though eveiybody one can get at cordially supports what I want, still there always is the mysterious ‘they' who sit up aloft and contrive to do the nasty thing! Sialkot not being- included in the new scheme the Medical Oflicer in Charge there is wild with despair ! Dec. 22.—I have been to Peshawar, but did nothing there but rush about after houses or quarters for Nursing Sisters, had interviews with the P.M.O., the Executive Engineer, and all sorts of things. I am so excited: it is just possible that I may have to go and give chloroform to one of Ayub Khan's wives ! She is to have a little tutnour removed, which the doctors may remove; but they may not give chloroform, as they could not give it without seeing her face. Dec. 29.—It is intensely bitterly cold here now ; snow is on the hills all round and the wind is so piercing one hardly dares face it. After all I was not called upon to give the chloroform, a lady doctor having been summoned to operate.