. 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. lop there a school to train nativewomen, Dr. A. H. Woods described the type of nurseneeded in words that show how far above the averagemust be leaders in foreign countries, if they wouldsucceed: Just a commonplace nurse would not make a successout here at the present juncture. So far as I know, noone has yet undertaken in China just the kind of workthat we desire the nurse to do . . The woman to dothis work should be mature, with prop
. 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. lop there a school to train nativewomen, Dr. A. H. Woods described the type of nurseneeded in words that show how far above the averagemust be leaders in foreign countries, if they wouldsucceed: Just a commonplace nurse would not make a successout here at the present juncture. So far as I know, noone has yet undertaken in China just the kind of workthat we desire the nurse to do . . The woman to dothis work should be mature, with proper poise, so un-questionably a lady that low men-patients would beunable to say vulgar things in her presence. She mustbe not only a good nurse, but able to train others, toorganise the work for us and keept it going. ... If,to other qualifications, she could add the virtue ofwidowhood or celibacy, it would leave us with a freeroutlook. . We doctors will keep in close relationshipwith the head of the nursing department. We will all 1 Chinese Manual of Nursing, compiled by the Central ChinaBranch of China Medical Missions Association, Shanghai, Chinese Pupil Nurses By Courtesy of the American Journal of Nursing China 281 be together and so should be socially congenial. Therewill be no such thing as friction, if all recognise that asspecialists each has his own responsibility. The nursehas the nurses special work, which is as dignified as thatof an architect employed to erect a building. Wewould not look for servile obedience, but we must, ofcourse, have the ordinary co-operation such as wouldexist in a good hospital. ? The indescribable need of the Chinese poor, es-pecially the women and children, and their winningpersonalities, inspire the mission nurses with thefullest devotion of which their characters are thank God I was called to China, said Miss Tippet, of the Wilson Memorial Hospital at Ping-yang Fu, when, in London, she addressed an audi-ence to tel
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