The history of nursing in the British Empire / by Sarah A. Tooley.

  • Sarah Anne Tooley
Date:
1906
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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I NURSING BEFORE 1840 PAGE Pagan indifference to the sick—St. Paul institutes deaconesses—The life and work of St. Paula—Nursing an outcome of religious devotion—Rise of general hospitals—The Hospitali^res—The Hotel Dieu—Influence of the Crusades—The Abbess Hildegarde founds a school—Nursing in monastic infirmaries—Medical Brotherhoods—The Knights Hospitallers employ women—The Grey Sisters—The B^guines—Sisters of St. Elizabeth—A new era of nursing—St. Vincent de Paul—Founds the Association of Charity—Madame de Gondi—The Ladies of Charity—Remarkable in- fluence of St. Vincent—Duchess d'Aiguillon — Madame Goussault— Madame le Gras—St. Vincent founds the Sisters of Charity—The estab- lishment of the Sisterhood—St. Vincent's rules—Spread of the Sisterhood —They undertake every branch of nursing—Not cloistered nuns—The humanitarian spirit—First hospital nurses in London—St. Bartholomew's —St. Thomas's—Guy's Hospital—Quaint rules—Deterioration of nursing —Dr. Gooch attempts reform in 1825—Letters to Southey—Religious female physicians—England apathetic—Kaiserswerth founded—Its influence on nursing in this country i CHAPTER n THE PIONEER WORK OF ELIZABETH FRY Early life of Elizabeth Fry—Her marriage and settlement in London—Prison work—Friendship with Pastor Fliedner—The Deaconess Hospital at Kaiserswerth—Resolves to found a nursing sisterhood—Letter to the Bishop of London—Queen Adelaide becomes Patroness—Queen Victoria interested—Failing health and death of Mrs. Fry 23 CHAPTER HI THE INSTITUTION OF NURSING SISTERS Institution founded, 1840—The rules and regulations—Training of the sisters- First staff of nurses enrolled—Lady Inglis becomes president—Growth of the institution—Quaint rules—Present regulations—Letter from Thackeray —Devoted service of the Committee—The lady superintendent—Contem- porary nursing in America and abroad . CHAPTER IV CHARLES DICKENS AND NURSING REFORM Caricature a factor in Reform—Dickens creates Sairey Gamp—The character takf>n as night nurse—They prepare their patient for a journey-Rupture of the rwf P.f'i^rstup-No immediate reform after publication of ]V?ar n Chuzzlewit—Dickens laments state of nursing in hospitals . ^'^^ ix 32 45