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Say Little, Do Much: Nurses, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). Olson, Tom Craig, and Eileen Walsh. Handling the Sick: The Women of St. Luke's and the Nature of Nursing, 1892-1937 (Ohio State UP, 2004), the story of 838 women who entered St. Luke's Hospital Training School for Nurses, St. Paul, Minnesota.
By the late 19th century, the modern hospital was beginning to take shape with a proliferation of a variety of public and private hospital systems. By the 1870s, hospitals had more than tripled their original average intake of 3,000 patients. In continental Europe the new hospitals generally were built and run from public funds. Nursing was ...
Three medical professions were opened to women in the 19th century: nursing, midwifery, and doctoring. However, it was only in nursing, the one most subject to the supervision and authority of male doctors, that women were widely accepted.
Within this building the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Gallery is open to the public. The gallery is a permanent installation and uses a variety of media to tell the story of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, her hospital, and women's struggle to achieve equality in the field of medicine within the wider framework of 19th and 20th century social history.
The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...
Religious organizations were the care providers. [1] 55 AD – Phoebe was nursing history's Christian first nurse and most noted deaconess. [2] 300 – Entry of Christian women into nursing. [3] c. 390 AD – The first general hospital was established in Rome by Saint Fabiola. [4] c. 620 AD – Rufaida Al-Aslamia became the first Muslim nurse.
By the late 19th century, women were doing 75% of the work of making cloth in Lowell, Massachusetts, Scientific American reported in 1879. Many came from rural areas of New England, swapping farm ...
Its purposes were to “establish in Philadelphia, a Hospital for the treatment of diseases of women and children, and for obstetrical cases; furnishing at the same time facilities for clinical instruction to women engaged in the study of medicine, and for the practical training of nurses; the chief resident physician to be a woman.” [2] Though most medical care in the 19th century occurred ...