. A history of nursing; the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses. estab-lished two charitable institutions: (1) Hidenin, a placewhere orphans and aged people came to be taken careof; (2) Seyaknin, a place where the poor were providedwith medicines and necessary things for the sick. [Acharity hospital.] With the permission of the Emperorshe built a house where people came to be bathed, andsent word to the near-by towns that the Empress herselfwould bathe the lepers. The number [to be bathed byher own
. A history of nursing; the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses. estab-lished two charitable institutions: (1) Hidenin, a placewhere orphans and aged people came to be taken careof; (2) Seyaknin, a place where the poor were providedwith medicines and necessary things for the sick. [Acharity hospital.] With the permission of the Emperorshe built a house where people came to be bathed, andsent word to the near-by towns that the Empress herselfwould bathe the lepers. The number [to be bathed byher own hands] was limited to one thousand. One afterthe other the patients came, but when the numberreached 999, there was a sudden stop to their Empress was greatly disappointed and wonderedwhy there was not one more to make up the there came a very ragged dirty man, whose wholebody was covered with ulcers, of which the odour wasenough to make those sick who were near by. Hestopped at the gate and asked those inside to let him he was so filthy that the custodian refused to lethim in. The ragged man still begged repeatedly to be. a mO W -1-5 C 6 Japan 257 admitted, and finally the word reached the Empress andshe sent out her orders that he be let in, and they wereobeyed immediately. The leper was led to the bathroom by the Empressherself, in reply to his plea that she should bathe was so abounding in mercy that she did not hesitatea moment, and while she was washing the leper he wassuddenly transformed into a very perfect being. As-tonished, she asked him who he was. Then in a loudvoice he answered: I am the image of Ahiniyorai; Icame to see whether you were doing this work from yourheart or only to gain the praise of the people. Then herode on the purple cloud and vanished away. So brighta light radiated from him as he disappeared that thepeople named the place Komio San Ashikaji. [Komio—light or bright; San—mountain.]1 From the day of th
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