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she learnt that women were ‘being educated as nurses at Kaiaerwerth in Germany and in spite of the opposi- ‘tion of her family, she insisted trpon ltaklng theicourse. She then spent some time in Paris where also, some hospitals were teaching women the essentials of nursing» practice. When she returned home she’ was almost the only trained ‘nurse -in Jimgiand and certainly the .only gentiewoman vrho had taken up nursing as rt pro- fession. » ' The" Crimean War

Bu! dart '1 um: [or that: ivm/uamr. Many people have the beginnings of pyorrhea in their mouths for ten years before out- wartl signs appear. To bc sale, see your dentist at lcasr twice a ycarand brush your tecth twice daily with Forhans.

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May the twelfth will bi: colebrritfil‘ in every part of thc British Empire as "Red Cross Day." The datc was chosen because it. was thc bitﬁhday‘ o2 Florence Nightingale. Henri Dun-i ant, through whfs‘ efforts the Redl

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Florence Nightingale‘: ‘Contribuhtond

The story of her life is full of in- terest. it is a; revelation of what can be accomplished, itlmost. single-hand- ed, by an idealist equipped with a high degree of practical intelligence. rm indomitable will and at cotirattcous spirit. Notonly (lid shc inspire Dun- rmt to found the Red Cross but shc service of the British Army and in- directly of the tit-mics of all

modem nursing

Saucy Gatnps of her dim tier Education

Florence Nightingale was born of l-iugiish parents in Italy on May l2. i820. Her lather was a highly; edu- cated man who, contrary to the us- ual custom cf the time, look n deep int/crest in the education of‘ his idaughter. The. resul: of his training ‘could be seen throughout her life. Not only tlld he equip her with a body of knowledge vastly greater thau was tisual among her contem- poraries but shc learnt from him that. 6\’l‘l‘_\’ yiroiilcm utnst be thought through to its solution. No hall mcnstircs wct-i- permitted.

A Born Nurse

Even as a child she showed an ex lrncrdinary interest in the sick. Hcr dolls‘ houses were infirmarles and her pets were animals whom shc

t9 reiillzg her ticerl of" trnjininrt. Enthusiasm an were not enough", was essential. Search For Knowledge

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materials where you may boast go with cveiyvtliiiig anti do not materials.

riwoiutionizcd the tniiitnry medical Cliblibly bad. There were no suPplies

the linen, no bandages, no dressings-in E\ii‘0)'if§i\l\‘i‘\Rl~l(ll\5. and she initiated {Mll- iri places of the for the care of the sick and wounded.

adominations of the Betsy Prigs and 5Y0"

hnd tiurscd through itijuries. As shc grew older. shc became the amateur nurse fﬂf rill the ailing people in thc district surrounding her fathers es-

tate. By caring for them she came professional She and her nurses worked to the

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ior the most part are short, for itiornitig dzesscs. formal coats and jackets for evening and fluffy afternoon affairs.

sombre colors, because they then permit delightful splotches for

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Three years later, in i854, thc Crimean War broke out and a few months later all England was read- ing with horror and dismay the i-e- ports that were reaching home g- bout tho dlgraceful mismanagement anti utter breakdown of the hospital scrvicc for the sick and “rounded, Public feeling began to run high and Mr. Herbert, Secretarybt State for War, an old friend of her family's and a great admirer of her kn i- lcdgc and capacity, wrote her to ask ll Sllﬁ “Wild take a group of com- petent, nurses to the war zone. His letter crossed one from her offering her services to the Government a- long these lilies. _

o A Naéonal Disgrace.

When Miss Nightingale and_ her band of thirty-elg/hy nurses arrived at Scutari they found a condition of affairs in the principal military hospital that was almost beyond be- lief. The nursing service was indes-

-no soap. no pails, no clothes, no

none of the primary essentials

the food was abominulq The conspicuous features were film, ‘in- efficiency and red-tape. It is not to lbe wondered at that the death rate

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assistants had dragged themselves to bed, shc would make her nightly round, illuminating her path with her little lamp. Hence the name by which.‘ she become famous. She W85. however, more than a. ministering angel. Though the rough soldiers a- dored her, though as one of them expressed it "before she came there was such cussln‘ and swearln’. but after that it was ‘oiy as a church,” and though another said. "she would speak to one and another and nod and smile to as many more but she coulclntdo it nil for we lay there by the hundreds. but we would kiss hcr shadow as ll; fell and lie back on our pillows content," those who obstruct- ed her plans and used their author- ity to oppose the‘ introduction’ of essential reforms. found her a wo- man with an iron determination. She had, lllvl/Yill/il, a hand of steel under a velvet glove. The" seniors at the War Office must have cursed theday that Sydney Herbert had in- vited her intotheir previously pleas-

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Revolutionof the Military Medical Scrvico

Hét" work in the Crimea, her rcpu- tatlan "her social position and above i all her knowledge and courage, made it: possible for her to bring about a revolutionary change in the military medical services of the day. From an lilldﬁfﬁlﬂffed branch of the army. chieﬂy notable for callousness and inefficiency, it became a well-equip- pod and reasonably efficient part of the military machine.‘

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Henri Dunant, a young public spirit ed citizen of Geneva, was travelling a. few years later in nothcrn Italy. He had read the reports Florence Night- lnsnlc had made to the British Government. and, finding himself in‘. ‘

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hour of one of the bloodies battles of the war. Hc saw n field strewn Wil-h Firrviiiliiiig rim] Drfmrtmenlnl 5/0111, rrcryirihcre.

itiurc livtzthlc. lifiMlNlON i ill.(".l.<TI"l{ u llNOlulilfiM corvnvtnr tistrirn MONTREAL

d?" 011d filing men. tortured by thirst. bleeding from innumerable‘ wounds, stifferltig indescribable ﬁg. onies. with no one to bring them any help or relief. He rccuited the pra- snnts in the adjacent rillagcs. liu

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[was over thirty pct‘ cent. Order Out of Chaos

Tilt‘ srnior officers did not greet her with any enthusiasm. Having rc- portcd that oveiything was quite satisfactory, it did not appeal to them that a band of “amateurs? and women at that silouid be Ioister- led upon them by the authorities at lliomir. But in spitc of the difficul-

tics they pincer! in her way, Florence

Niglituignle gradually succeeded in bringing some order out of the chaos.

Her first task was to provide proper

fcorl for the patients. Her next was

to organize a laundry. she pUPOllHS€d

10.000 shirts to clothe the nackedness

of the shivering soldiers. She found

supplies of linen and other hospital necessities buried among tho masses of military stores and by persistence

and importunity secured them for lthc patients.

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strength and beyond m dawn to dark rind on into the night they bathed. fed and cared for the thousands of their soldier

There was no training schools for patients and after her exhausted

Fevllrcd l-lin assiritnitcc" of civilian

doctors. Ho organized an Ch’l(‘l‘l'll)Oi'-, nrv but effective" voluntary medical‘ service to which hundreds owed their" lives and thousands the relief of

their aizonies.

The Birth of Red Cross

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as well as on ul-Z iii‘? shc was 1m ‘mviiiirl. only l\\(]\'ili‘_" ciifficully from hcr ‘mil l» <1 ‘shc spared n0 effort t» "u iieiidets otthc nation vim-u \\' .2 cit: n;

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For the next three years he de-l voted himself to thc task of awak- ening thcconscimcc of filo world to‘ the intoicra-blc and unnecessary suf-' fcring which resulted from thc d9. ficlent medical arrntlgcmnts of arm- ies. As a restilt of his efforts the Gen- cva Convention was signed in i864.‘ The signatory tiations aggrcccl that! civilian volunteers might be regularly "organized in connection with armies. Their duties ivcre to care for the sick and wounded. They vvcrc to be absolutely neutral and respected as

sticii. The emblem by which they might be reccgnizcrl vtas thc Rcfl Cross. i

"The Great English woman "

From this orgin has grown [he worldwide organization of the Red Cross as it is today. The incredible miseries of the sick and ivouiitlerl soldiers of the Crimea and of other wars o.’ the last century are things of the past. The magnificent. sci-vice .01" the medical and nursing profess- ion m the Great War vras thc in- evitable development of the work of F'lol'ence Nightingolc and Henri Dunant, who in his later years fren- ly itcknoivlcdged his debt to thc "great Englishwoman.“

The Origins of lilodern Nursing

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OAP is cheap. Everyone knows S that! \‘Vc use it freely without thought of cost. But did you ever’ stop to think that the electricity to ilo an entire washing costs less than the soap that is used. And so it is » . \\'i(l\ most other household tasks. Electricity bears the burden at a trifling cost. Nearly every service it pcrforius in the home maybe paid" for with pcitnies. in fact, if you paid for electricity as you use it. /l pennies would pay your clcctriclvilln r/gg"

Through hcr share in this WOFK would imvc been enough to keep her memory forever green. Florence Nightingale made a further contribu- tion to humanity of perhaps even greater value. Long before her cx~ perienccs in the Crimean war shc had realized the need for a revolu- tion ln the nursing practices of hei- day. Her interest in the sick and suffering had brought home’ to her the fa-ct that an esscntial factor was wholly lacking namely, sirilful ltild lntelligent nursing.

The National Heroine

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On her return from Scutari shc found herself“ a. national licromc. The people of England eagerly d\ ‘availed her arrival that they might welcome her in their cheering thous- ands. She escaped the ‘public deni- unstrittiotis but thankfully accepted a gift of 144.000 which had been mined by popular subscription, and

with this fund sht- cstabiishccl a training school for nurses in con- uectlon with St. Thomas‘ Hospital.

From ths rhool has come the motl- ern trained. cducatcd skiilul nurse of modem tla3\ -the nurse to whose care thousands of people have owed relief of their sufferings. comfort in their darkest hours and in uncount- oblc instances thcir very livrs.

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