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An elderly woman relates her experiences as a nurse in the early 1900s. These include her life as a student nurse in nursing school at Christ Hospital in Topeka, KS, and care of a pregnant woman who acquired pneumonia and later died together with her unborn baby. She also tells of her patient who had a rare case of erysipelas, an acute form of cellulitis, and how she assisted in treating a high school student with a ruptured appendix by applying hot turpentine stupes on his abdomen.
I started nursing school at Christ Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, in 1917. In those days, nursing education was more like military training. We lived in a dormitory, with beds in [...]