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| At School—Determined to be a Nurse—Royal Red Cross instituted—Preliminary Training | 1 |
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| II |
| Visit to Tenerife—A Storm in the Bay—The Beauties of the Island | 3 |
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| III |
| Up the CaÑadas—Voyage Home on a Cargo-boat—Call at Madeira | 8 |
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| IV |
| First Experiences in a Hospital—The Food—Some Medical Cases—My First "Special" Case | 14 |
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| V |
| Moved to a Surgical Ward—In Quarantine—A Poisoned Hand—"Kathleen" | 19 |
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| VI |
| In the Out-Patient Department—Food improved, and Heavy Work reduced—Act as Night Sister for two nights—Am offered a post as Staff Nurse—My first Certificate | 25 |
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| VII |
| To South Africa for a year—Voyage out on the Scot—By train from Cape Town to Kimberley | 31 |
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| VIII |
| Life on the Diamond Fields—I meet Mr. Cecil Rhodes—The Kimberley Exhibition | 37 |
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| IX |
| A Visit to Cape Town—Up Table Mountain—Return to Kimberley | 42 |
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| X |
| On Circuit in Cape Colony—A Visit to Natal—The Doctor's Fee | 48 |
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| XI |
| East London and Port Elizabeth—Down a Diamond Mine (Kimberley)—Return to England | 54 |
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| XII |
| Accepted for training at a General Hospital—I begin in a Medical Ward—A sudden death | 60 |
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| XIII |
| On the Surgical side—A heavy "Take-in" week—Lectures on Physiology | 66 |
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| XIV |
| My first Typhoid Case—Diphtheria Tracheotomies—The Rescue of the Cat—On Night Duty | 71 |
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| XV |
| Christmas in Hospital—The Dispensing Examination—Acting Assistant Matron—Three Weeks on Duty in an Infirmary | 77 |
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| XVI |
| First Sister in the Front Surgery—A Bad Accident—A Dog with a Broken Leg | 83 |
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| XVII |
| Temporary Ward Sister—Appointed Night Sister—Interesting Work—Join the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses—I spend Christmas warded as a Patient | 89 |
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| XVIII |
| Chloroform for a Cat—I Volunteer for Plague Duty (refused)—Appointed Ward Sister—A Fire Alarm—A Holiday in Switzerland—A Bomb in Paris | 95 |
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| XIX |
| I go to Egypt—Nursing at Sea in rough weather—At Helouan—Ride out to the Pyramids—The Kasr-el-Aini | 102 |
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| XX |
| Up the Nile by Tourist Steamer—At Luxor—"Hare and Hounds" on Donkeys | 109 |
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| XXI |
| War in the Soudan—Night and Day Nursing | 115 |
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| XXII |
| Sent up to Assouan—Down the Nile on a Post Boat—A Saunter Home across the Continent | 120 |
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| XXIII |
| Back to my old Hospital—In a Ward for Women and Children—Christmas in a Men's Accident Ward | 126 |
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| XXIV |
| Scarlet Fever—At Marlborough House with R.N.P.F. Nurses | 132 |
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| XXV |
| The Boer War—A Lucky Meeting at the War Office—Joined the Army Nursing Service Reserve—Choosing fittings, &c., for a Hospital of 100 beds | 137 |
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| XXVI |
| Voyage out on the Tantallon Castle—Some Military Hospitals near Cape Town—We land in Natal | A NURSE'S LIFE IN WAR
AND PEACE
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