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Title: A history of nursing; the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nutting, M. Adelaide (Mary Adelaide), 1858-1948 Dock, Lavinia L., 1858-1956
Subjects: Nursing -- History
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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have properlyeducated girls come to take the course, but we mustfirst have a proper place to house them, and equip-ment to make coming here attractive.1 In 1908, the missionary nurses working in Turkeywere voted in as full members of the first conferenceof the Medical Missions Association of that country,and Miss North, stationed in Cesarea, reported excel-lent work in the training of native women. An asso-ciation of nurses in Turkey was then first suggested. In Syria, a wide influence has been exerted byMiss Edla Wortabet, an English nurse, who wrotea nursing text-book in Syrian. The training schoolof the Protestant College, at Beirut, graduated itspioneer class of three in 1908, with thirteen pupilsentered and a waiting list of as many more. The headnurse, Miss Jane E. Van Zandt, of the New YorkPost-Graduate, wrote that the educational standardfor nurses was very good and the outlook mosthopeful.2 1 Bulletin, Central Turkey College, December, 1910.* A. J. N., January, 1909, p. 274.
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CO Corea 287 In Greece, English nurses have shown a modelof hospital work, and Greek maidens have crossedthe seas for training to carry back for the service oftheir country. The first so to come to America wasKleonike Klonare, in 1900, to the MassachusettsGeneral, and in 1904 came three Greek girls underthe protection of one of the royal family. Two fol-lowed Miss Klonare to her alma mater and thethird went to the Baptist Hospital in Boston. In Persia, amidst all sorts of difficulties, Miss H.D. McKim, of the Toronto General, worked loyallyfrom 1903, and so in every corner of the earth thenurses cap and pin may be found. CHAPTER VI SOME ISLAND HOSPITALS AND NURSES Collaborators: M. Eugenie Hibbard, Cuba; MabelMcCalmont, The Philippines. Cuba.—At the conclusion of the war with Spain in1908, the Sisters of the religious nursing orders inCuba were withdrawn by their Motherhouses, andthe officers of the United States army faced thedifficulty of equipping the hospitals with an efficientn

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