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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    italics.] I have to write one letter to some school- children, charity-children, who have sent me some few shillings for the men. Poor little things, I must not neglect them. The poor soldiers are not allowed milk, and I buy it with my money, and shall while it lasts; 'tis all they seem to care for. We have Russians here, and this is the Turkish Barrack Do write soon. I have had letters from all I shall in future call friends. Yours ever, my own dear Marianna, Kate. I do not attempt to record the scenes and daily work in the new hospital, but these few letters serve to throw lightning flashes into the abyss of suffering and gloom, and also to throw up features of the Character of the writer. The following tells of her terrible illness, when the hirelings about her, sup- posing her as good as dead, robbed her of all her clothes and outfit, while she lay, without power to speak or move, though conscious all the time of the robbery. If ever action were heroic it was so here : nothing daunted the soul in that fragile body; no scenes of appalling anguish; no physical suffering; no heart-rending want; no rage of fever madness; no hopeless toil of ministry; no doctors' warning to de- part ; no hazard of life; no overthrow by fell disease,
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