The medical man is thus deprived of his proper position, and as his promotion depends on the Intendant, he can hardly be expected to be bold enough to expose omissions in the management It Much: said about the y of in military hospitals, ami thmi/h the itioo admits <>t' numerous argument on A I ill have no hesitation in adhesion to the practicability and usefulness of tliis proposal, if conducted with discretion and on. have seen much of this experiment, and iied its working with. I believe that Miss impale. led the question, and that under es an addition will be made to the regularly recognised nursing arrangements of our military estabwhieh will prove of the very high >t value, irreat diih'culty will always lie to find persons lit ted to undertake the duty.
They must combine a vigorous with a well-halanecd mind a mind untinetured." but endowed with ivli ich depth an h as will enable them. is Christ our Lord, in p ievotion."-' to undertake their mi; most perfect subjection to ss" or nervousness of disposition, cab; IB certainly very desirable that all the df tl ami rs, so as to produce as at preo' i 1.1 I called upon to arrve half a dozen masters, is a nr ci-y t.nlvc.
The general hospital system is, of notion of a good " whole " in this respect. 1'itals can be, and in this the advantages of duch a syntom are recognisable. I ructions to Uir Sujwrior of the Russian ating >i.t- n Ol Mrn-y. WAR. the hour of danger, and, above all, a large stock both of common sense and of cheerfulness. In recounting these qualifications, I do little more than name those so preeminently possessed by Miss Nightingale, and several of our leading nurses. It requires the complete abnegation of self-will which exists in the Romish church to produce the sceurs de cliarite; but that the Protestant church too can send forth a band equally efficient, the "deaconnesses " of the Rhine and our own Eastern hospital nurses have demonstrated.
That most injudicious selections were in various instances made for service in our ments will deny; but every unprejudiced and attentive observer must acknowledge the vast amount of good which the female nurses accomplished, and the incalculable service which they are capable of performing when judiciously selected and properly organized. The respect, almost devotion, shown towards them by the soldiers, disappointed those who prophesied different conduct from " the British ruffian." In military, more than in civil hospitals, is the kindly sympathy and gentle care of a woman required. The soldier has no crowd of anxious friends or relatives to * Those who are interested in this question will read with pleasure the pastor Fleidner's personal account of the Kasierswerth Institution for the training of Deaconnesses which he has published; as well as a short pamphlet which is believed to have been written by Miss Nightingale on the same subject, and published in London for the benefit of the Invalid Gentlewoman's Establishment.
It shows that, long before the establishment of the order of sisters of mercy by St. Vincent de Paul, the office of deaconness existed in the Christian church, as well as how energetic the sisterhood has been since its revival. The deaconnesses now supply a great many hospitals in Germany and elsewhere with nurses, and the system is rapidly spreading to different countries. his sick bed: hut, oppressed by a sense of loneliin a foreign land a feeling of which he is little conscious wln-n in health, but which comes upon him with overpowering weight when the silence oi' the sick room irives liim time tor reflection, he clings to those identic otliecs ot' kindness which a woman can alone To the sur-von a good nurse is of incalculable service. Hi< medicines and splints cannot cure unless many trivial and apparently insignificant points connected with the management of a sick lied, which are more than half the cure, are attended to. The surgeon Mouirh to occupy all his scant time in the greater and more serious duties of his service; while those nameless, necessities of a siek room, none minister to like a woman. To perform such duties ms part of a woman's mission on The patii-iiceaiid u rcntlen, ss which are such inestimable (jualilication< in a nurse, we cannot lo,.k for in a strong and vigorous man. nor yet that sen"ignition nf a man's wants which so distinguishes a illegible in the scan of the first