"That's right," I said, "I am a doctor, I used to be on call at the hospitals.
Some rules seemed harsh, of course, such as the law that all operations had to be performed in Lobby hospitals.
Millowners and manufacturers build hospitals, schools, savings banks, asylums, and dwellings for their workpeople.
With a dozen or more great hospitals and more than three hundred boards of health, great things have been accomplished.
In May, 1855, she visited other hospitals that were nearer the seat of war and went into the trenches themselves before Sebastopol.
Sick people were expected to be cared for by their relatives; hospitals were inefficient and badly run, and the comforts of the modern sickroom were unknown.
While the war was going on thousands of sick and wounded British soldiers were pouring into the base hospitals at Scutari, where no provision for their care had been made.
He was thoroughly self-satisfied, as well he might be, for the entire countryside admitted his skill, and even in the operating rooms of the hospitals in the city not far distant.
In the meantime, through the generosity of Vincent's friends, hospitals were being built and men and women were offering themselves to help in any capacity in this work of charity.
The War Department had already decided that Miss Nightingale was the one person who could take charge of the reorganization of the hospitals in the Crimea, and had written a letter requesting her services.