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The book reviews changing care practices in different settings, including early hospitals, monastic nursing, and the rise of nursing orders. It also highlights nursing specialisms and influential figures, while explaining how professional respectability and attitudes toward nurses evolved across the centuries.","A HISTORY OF NURSING  \nLOUISE WYATT  \n|  | BARB   | CAN LIBF   | ARY   |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |  |  |\n\nA  \n7.  \nCity of London Libraries  \nCITY  \nPlease return on or before the latest date above.  \nLONDON  \nTo renew log on to your account at  \nhttps://col.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk  \nor telephone 02076380569 during library opening hours  \nwww.cityoflondon.gov.uk/libraries  \nFor my three boys,Dan,Lee and Billy,lots of love.  \nThanks to Steve Moore of SM Captures Photographyfor permission to use his photograpkis.  \nFirst published 2019  \nAmberley PublishingThe Hill,StroudGloucestershire,GL54EP  \nwww.amberleybooks.com  \nCopyright ◎Louise Wyatt,2019  \nThe right of Louise Wyatt to be identified as the Authorof this work has been asserted in accordance with theCopyrights,Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reprintedor reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic,  \nmechanical or other means,now known or hereafter invented,including photocopying and recording,or in any information  \nstorage or retrieval system,without the permission in writingfrom the Publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nISBN 9781445681511(print)ISBN 9781445681528(ebook)  \nOrigination by Amberley Publishing.Printed in Great Britain.  \n# Foreword\n\n45S  \n# Introduction\n\nNursing in Antiquity  \n6  \nEarly Middle Ages  \n15  \nThe Coming of Christianity and Nursing the Sick  \n15  \nEarly Monastic Nurses  \n20  \nEarly Hospitals  \n23  \nLate Middle Ages  \n27  \nHildegard of Bingen and Abbess Euphemia  \n27  \nSecular Nursing Orders and Development of the Hospital  \n32  \nThe Foundation of Modern Nursing and Training from 1400 Onwards39  \nNursing SpecialismsDistrict NursingWet NursingMidwifery  \n57  \n57  \n63  \n65  \nLesser-known Nurses and Their Legacies  \n68  \n68  \nCalamity Jane  \n69  \nDame Cicely SaundersEthel Gordon FenwickEllen DoughertyBetsi CadwaladrLinda Richards  \n71  \n73  \n75  \n78  \n82  \nFlorence Nightingale  \n94  \n## Bibliography\n\nForeword bySharon Bennett Connolly  \nI'm sure that most people,like me,believe that nursing as a profession began withFlorence Nightingale and her lamp,walking the wards of her hospital at Scutari duringthe Crimean War.Her attention to cleanliness and battling infection meant that survivalrates ofwounded servicemen increased dramatically.The impact of Florence Nightingaleshould never be underestimated.  \nHowever,nursing has been practised throughout the centuries,in many forms,by bothmen and women,in hospitals and homes.Although predominantly the profession ofwomen-an assertion supported by the titles associated with nursing,such as 'matron,'sister'and ‘midwife'.Indeed,it is from the term associated with nuns -‘sister'-thatsenior nurses get their title.However,it has never been a profession solely for women;in medieval times,monks were just as likely to be involved in nursing the sick as theirfemale counterparts.  \nThe respectability of the profession,moreover,has not always been viewed very highly,and at its lowest point nurses were seen as little better than prostitutes.Thankfully thesedays they are more likely to be considered the unsung heroes in our lives.Nursing is-and always has been -a vocation more than a profession.It takes a special kind ofperson to care for people when they are illand at the lowest or at the end of their lives.  \nA History of Nursing by Louise Wyatt helps to bring recognition to a profession thatoften receives little thanks,but for which we all have a need at many points duringour lives,from banged heads and scuffed knees as children,through immunisations,childbirth,injuries and illnesses,to the very 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