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I always confer with the doctor, or find out from the nurse or ward-master, about a new case.
Each has its Ward Surgeon and corps of nurses.
Cleanliness, proper nursing, watching &c., are more deficient than in any hospital I know.
WOMEN NURSES. Middle-aged women and mothers of families are best.
am compelled to say young ladies, however refined, educated and benevolent, do not succeed as army nurses
I should like to have been with you so I could have nursed you back to health & strength, but if you
wish to hear about them—every one is so unfeeling, it has got to be an old story—there is no good nursing—O
The notes on female nurses during the war were used in Female Nurses for Soldiers, first published under
the heading, A Few Words about Female Nurses for Soldiers, in The Soldiers, New-York Times (6 March