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The 18th century was considered the Age of Reason.A lot of myths were contradicted by scientific fact. [7] Jamaican "doctresses" such as Cubah Cornwallis, Sarah Adams and Grace Donne, the mistress and healer to Jamaica's most successful planter, Simon Taylor, had great success using hygiene and herbs to heal the sick and wounded.
Telford, Jennifer Casavant. "The American Nursing Shortage during World War I: The Debate over the Use of Nurses’ Aids." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 27.1 (2010): 85-99. online; Tomblin, Barbara Brooks. G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II (2004) 272 pages excerpt and text search
A Women's War Too: U.S. Women in the Military in World War II. United States: National Archives Trust Fund Board. ISBN 1-880875-098. Robinson, Thelma M., (RN) (2005). Nisei Cadet Nurse of World War II: Patriotism in Spite of Prejudice. San Francisco, CA: Black Swan Mill Press.
The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...
3.3 World War II. 4 Military nursing services. 5 Army nursing in films. Toggle the table of contents. Army nursing. Add languages. ... Timeline of nursing history ...
An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing (1988) online; Dingwall, R. and Mclntosh, J., eds. Readings in the Sociology of Nursing (1978) Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. Helmstadter, Carol, and Judith Godden, eds. Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899 (2011) McBride, Brenda. Quiet Heroines: Story of the Nurses of the Second World War (1985)
1942: The Marine Corps Women's Reserve (MCWR) was authorized by the U.S Congress in July 1942 to relieve male Marines for combat duty in World War II. [19] 1942: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Public Law 689 creating the Navy's women reserve program on 30 July 1942. [20] 1942: The U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was ...
First American recipient of the Legion of Merit and member of the "Angels of Bataan" – World War II. 1944 CAPT Sue S. Dauser: First woman in the Navy to be promoted to the rank of Captain O-6 – World War II. 1945 ENS Jane Kendeigh: First Navy flight nurse in an active combat zone, serving at Iwo Jima. [19]