[Pattison, Dorothy W.] Lonsdale, Margaret.

Sister Dora – A Biography [of english nurse Dorothy W. Pattison].

Thirteenth Edition. London, C.Kegan Paul & Co., 1880. Octavo. Portrait – Frontispiece, VII, 257 pages. (besides the portrait – engraving of Dorothy Pattison, the volume also contains a “View from the Windows of Walsall Hospital”. Original Hardcover / Full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

Includes for example: Childhood and Early Life (1832-1852) / Life at Little Woolston, Coatham and Walsall (1861-1867) / Hospital Life and Visit to Lichfield (1867-1870) / The Work of the Hospital (1870-1873) / First Mission at Walsall and Small-Pox Epidemic in 1873-1875 / Life in the Epidemic Hospital (1875) / Visits to Paris and London etc.

Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, an English nurse, sister of the scholar and writer Mark Pattison. In 1864 she entered a Church of England Sisterhood of the Good Samaritan, adopting the name of “Sister Dora,” and from 1867 – 1877 she was a surgical nurse and had sole charge of a new hospital in Walsall.

With many natural gifts for her work, she acquired much skill in surgery, and was tireless in philanthropic service. She was greatly beloved among the poorer classes among whom she labored, and in her memory a window was placed in the parish church, and a statue of her erected in Walsall. (Source: History of Women – The unsung Heroines).

• Keywords: 19th Century Medicine · Catalogue Autumn 2020 · Catalogue Nine – Medicine · Catalogue No.9 – Medicine · Catalogue Three – Literature by Women · epidemiology · Medicine – Rare · Nurse · Nursing · Small-Pox Epidemic · Women in Healing and Medicine · Women in History – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 29221AB

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