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Title: The life of Florence Nightingale
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Tooley, Sarah A. Southall
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 Nurses
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company London : S. H. Bousfield & Co., ltd., 12, Portugal Street
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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at Kaisersvverth—Interest in PrisonReform—Starts a Small Penitentiary for Discharged FemalePrisoners—Founds a School and the Deaconess Hospital—Rulesfor Deaconesses—Marvellous Extension of his Work—His Death—Miss Nightingales Tribute. Just precepts thus from great examples given,She drew from them what they derived from Heaven. Pope. THE year 1849 proved a memorable one inthe career of Florence Nightingale, for it wasthen that she enrolled herself as a voluntary nursein the Deaconess Institution at Kaiserswerth on theRhine, which may be described as her Alma Mater.It was the first training school for sick nursesestablished in modern times, and it seems a happyconjunction of circumstances that she who wasdestined to hold the blue riband of the nursingsisterhood of the world should have studied withinits walls. 54 HER ALMA MATER 55 Although she had already gained valuable insightinto hospital work and management during hervisits to various hospitals at home and abroad, it
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PASTOR FLIEDNER, FOUNDER OF KAISERWERTH. was not until she came to Kaiserswerth that shefound her ideals realised. Here was a Protestantinstitution which had all the good points of the S6 LIFE OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Roman Catholic sisterhoods without their restrictions.It further commended itself as being under theguidance of Pastor Fhedner, a man of simple anddevoted piety and a born philanthropist. He had had the perspicacity to see that the worldneeded the services of trained women to grapplewith the evils of vice and disease, and to this endhe revived the office of deaconess which had beeninstituted by the early Christian Church. Theidea of training women to minister to the sick andthe poor seems natural enough to-day, but in MissNightingales young womanhood it was entirelynovel. The district nurse had not then beeninvented. The Kaiserswerth institution combinedhospital routine and instruction with beneficent workamong the poor and the outcast. Pastor Fliedner, the founder, was i

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