~Florence Nightingale
Two things prompted today's post -- thinking about the medical personnel who have become ill while treating Ebola and reading The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John Barry. Whether they are fighting illnesses such as influenza and Ebola or serving during wartime, nurses are always in a vital, vulnerable position.
Nurses in gas masks at the trenches in Germany
Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine
Interior of a ward on a British Ambulance Train in France
photo by David McLellan, National Library of Scotland
Dr. Frances Ivens at the Scottish Women's Hospital, Cloister of the Abbaye at Royaumont
by Norah Neilson-Gray
Nurses and Children during an air raid rehearsal in 1918
Before carrying out smallpox vaccinations, this public health nurse gives a lecture on the disease to schoolchildren
WHO photo by J. Abcede
One of the first parachute nurses
WHO/Red Cross photo
A taste of her own medicine
U.S. Library of Medicine
Achetez le timbre antituberculeux (Buy antituberculosis stamps)
Male Nurses- Life at Hackney Hospital, London, 1943
Anglīĭskai︠a︡ sestra miloserdīi︠a︡ v pokhodu
Date carta alla Croce Rossa / [E. Bonazzi]
Nurse wearing a mask as protection against influenza, September 13, 1918
The Emma Abbott, First Floating Hospital
by Julian Davidson
Australia World War II poster (Avenge the Nurses)
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3 comments:
"And so avenge the nurses!" Great stuff collected here. In looking at history, I'm always intrigued by the role of women and how they persevered -- did she jump out of a plane wearing a *SKIRT*?!
A touching post. This made me think of the nurses in Hospice who cared for my Mom for several months before she left us. They were soooo compassionate, patient and kind to her. And when I cried from exhaustion and stress, they made me feel heard and understood, and accepted. They even kept in touch afterwards, and helped me with the grieving process. Such a gift, to be a nurse! I highly respect them.
These are great photos/art about a great profession.
Nursing is indeed a vital field, and it seems that they are becoming more and more the central figure in treating patients.
And I am in total awe of the parachute nurses!
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