The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21

without great personal sacrifice The high
unabating Split bore hard upon the ira
gile form In the spring of 1880, worn
out with vigls and prtration, the lady
in charge Of the nurses was strlken Win
Crimean fever, and lay prostratc lof
many days in Il hospital hut. Deep was
the dismay III the ranks and heavy the
fear that death might claim as his prey
the soldiers friends On her partial re-
covcry she was strongly urged TO return
to England, but she refused to leave her
post until July oosth, 1o65, when on the
close of the war the British troops were
withdrawn from Scutari. The Journey
home was performed under the assumed
name in order to ;lsiod publicity and those
demonstrations from which. with the mod
esty Of truly admirable natures. she IN
stinctively shranl1. The haven OF Lea
Hurst was reached before it was known
she had left the East.
Fame such as never crowned the broWs
Of woman was now hers. Queen victoria
mad a ready sent 10 her an autograph lee
ter OF thanks and q cross set with Ola
monds, and Miss Nightingale now became.
the guest of her Sovereign at Balmoral.
The Sultan of Turkey presented her with
Il bra zelet of brillants. The nation sub
scribed a testimonial of $4,000 in recGg-
milton of her great services, Dut at her
request this sum vas deroted TO the eS-
Enlistment of Il Training School for q
superior order of nurses at st. Ihomas
Hospital known as the Nightingale Home,
which continues to be a worthy monu-
,nent to the nlunificence of its founder.
Seriously impaired in health by the ter
rible trials and sacrifices of the great
ca m11aign Miss Nightingale has since
lived in retirement, but from time to time
forcible writings, issuing from her seclu-
sion, have confirmed and made perna-
nent the reforms in hospital management
and care of the sick which were effected
during the Crimean War. In 1891 she
furnished the Commissioners appointed 70
enquire into the regulations affecting the
sanitary condition of the British Army
with written evidence, in which she clear
~ set forth the lesson Of the war. In
I 1859 Notes on Hospitals" appeared, and
in the following year Notes on Nursing.
In 1863. the Report Of the Commissioners
on the Sanitary condition of the Army
in India was sent to Miss Nightingale in
manuscript and her admirable comments
on the mass of evidence are incorporated
| with the publication. 1871 brought notes
/! on Lying in Institutions" and 1874 Life
! or Death in India" Many of these and
other works rapidly ran through several
! editions In 1888, Miss Nightingale con-
tributed to the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
work on "Woman's Mission" an arti lie
on Sick nursing and Health nursing
| which is full OF strong common sense,
| clothed in characteristic eloquence
! ON THE '.CALLING' OF NURSING.
| Here the bearings of the new art and
/ science of nursing are set forth. a new
| art and q new science have been created
| since and within the last forty years.
And with It new profession-so they
| say, We say calling. One would think
i this had been created or discovered for
some new want or local want. Not so.
| The want is nearly as old as the world,
nearly as large as the world, as pressing
! as life or death. It is that of sickness.
| And the art is that of nursing the sick.
/ Please mark nursing the sick. not nllrs-
I ing sickness. We will call the art
nurs'nr rrop T. r -i-E is g-,cr
| hv women under scientific heads-phvst-
clans and surgeons. This is enc OF the
distinctions between nursing proper and
medicine. though q very famous and
successful clan Gid say when asked
! how he treated pneumonia 10 not
threat pneumonia treat the person VINO
i8has pneunonia. . This is the reason why