. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. )ains in observing thenursing of patients in the Middlesexhosj)ital, whence afterwards she se-lected some of the nurses who accom-])anied her to the East. After this,she gathered new exjierieiice by in-. FLOEENCE KIGHTINGALE. 533 specting the jjrincipal hospitals in. thecountry towns. During this protrac-ted course of study, the observationwhich most frequently recurred to her,was the want of competent nurses anda school for the training of them. Atlength she learned that such a trainingschool as she desiied,
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. )ains in observing thenursing of patients in the Middlesexhosj)ital, whence afterwards she se-lected some of the nurses who accom-])anied her to the East. After this,she gathered new exjierieiice by in-. FLOEENCE KIGHTINGALE. 533 specting the jjrincipal hospitals in. thecountry towns. During this protrac-ted course of study, the observationwhich most frequently recurred to her,was the want of competent nurses anda school for the training of them. Atlength she learned that such a trainingschool as she desiied, though not to bemet with in the United Kingdom, exis-ted in Germany. This was the institution at Kaisers-werth, near Dusseldorf, on the Rhine,founded by Pastor Fliedner, for thepractical training of deaconesses, orvisiting nurses, who go out to visitthe sick and poor, one of a cluster ofcharitable establishments at this spotwhich had rapidly grown from a veryhumble beginning. The story of Flied-ners life is told in the popular workof John De Liefde, chiefly relating tothe charitable institutions of Germany,entitled The Romance of was, in 1822, a poor young Protes-tant clergyman of the Prussian church,in charge of a scanty flock, dependingfor their subsistence upon empl
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