Catharine Leslie Hobson, lady-nurse, Crimean war, and her life / by W.F. Hobson.

  • Hobson, W. F.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Catharine Leslie Hobson, lady-nurse, Crimean war, and her life / by W.F. Hobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CHAPTER IV. * By reason of use have their senses exercised.—Heb. v. A man must serve his time to every trade.—Byron. Hamlet.— I pray you play upon this lute. Player.— We cannot, my lord. NCONSCIOUS and providential preparation —the divine making of an instrument to do future work went on. Miss Kate [the name that friends—Miss Stanley, Miss E. Anderson, for memory's sake, and a few others—continued to use even after her marriage] learned the conditions of lonely country life and the morale of a village, where a home industry had the blame of shaping the habits and character of the people. The curate with whom she had worked in Devonport went to the Benefice of P , and a few months later she joined him and his wife to help, and to learn the practical work of instituting church order and parochial ministrations where such had for years and years been unknown, or had lapsed. The straw-plaiting industry was universal thereabouts; it was as the order of nature to the villagers. Every one was, of course, a