Sick-nursing essentially a woman's mission : being the inaugural lecture on the qualifications for and the conduct of sick-nurses delivered at the opening of the new School of Nursing in Saint Bartholomew's Hospital on May 1, 1877 / by Dyce Duckworth.
- Duckworth, Sir Dyce, 1840-1928.
- Date:
- 1877
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sick-nursing essentially a woman's mission : being the inaugural lecture on the qualifications for and the conduct of sick-nurses delivered at the opening of the new School of Nursing in Saint Bartholomew's Hospital on May 1, 1877 / by Dyce Duckworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![who wore a rail, and she was buried in one of these garments. These rails, or night-rails as they were termed, were white mantles or cloaks made of fine linen, and were provided by the hospital as ]jart of the Sisters' uniform dress. TJiey were worn in church, and on other occasions, as distinguishing marks of Sisters, and were supphed until 1841. In that year I find no more rails were issued, and one ' Sister Lucas' got a sum of money in lieu of a rail. Next I should mention' Sister Abernethy '—' Aber- nethy' of the days of Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Stanley. No surgical Sister was perhaps worthier than she, or better known by Bartholomew's men for her strong masculine sense and discretion. She was the last of the old school of Sisters, and her days are not yet ended. A more recent ' Sister Abernethy' deserves notice, and she also is alive, and with her predecessor may yet know that their excellent qualities are still remembered here, and have been commended to you, their succes- sors, to-day. If you go into the church hard by, and look upon the western wall, you will find there a marble tablet which was erected to the memory of Mary Owen who was ' Sister Eahere' in Mr. Lawrence's time, and the inscription on it tells of her service here for thirty-nine years as nurse and Sister, and further sets forth how she bequeathed no less a sum than £250 out of her savings to the Samaritan Fund of this hospital. She died in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22272161_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
