Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing - Carmen Sylva Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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X QA Egg,-L 5. 119, ln lin .1,6'x ily, 'f .. A !kS: , J! , ' , of HICWC ONCE AGAIN, it is time to say farewell--this time to an outstanding group of young women who will prove to be a credit to their Alma MaterQ This time it will be a joyful farewell 5 one dedicated to the future 3 one which will prove to be the basic foundation and turning point in many a young nurses' career. We are looking for many from the class of ,43 to be of service to Uncle Sam-and continue to uphold all those ideals that you have been endeavoring to attain through your short but pleasant stay here. We the class of ,44 continue to salute you and Will strive to meet those standards which you have so nobly upheld. With Godspeed and success, THE INTERMEDIATE CLASS 1:01751-.ff'l'l'lI

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A 1, .i'.'iiv- ' .ASQ In 5 .lumi- 4133118 33 lllir 5 Q , x Q X P 1 Quik! icrls lf li vfiflff ii S alll jlili ffl :jill QOOCIZI .visa fl I fl ,ig I 'yr 0' , l 7 . C MIPS 16 S M1 OJEIUDI li if SINCE THE iviosr dominant influences on the development of nursing throughout the ages has been religion, with war and science as secondary forces, we must look to these factors in the evolution of the nursels uniform. In the long period before the Christian era it is almost impossible to differentiate medical and nursing measures from ceremonials of worship, of purification and propitiation. It follows that the earliest costume for nursing was the garb of attendants of the priest in the temple. The medical man or priest monop- olized the functions of the priest, teacher, law giver, and physician. With the beginning of Christianity the new motives of brotherhood and service, and the emphasis upon the duty of charity and self sacrifices as preached by the poverty and the suffering of the early church under persecution, there developed workers whose main function was the care of the sick and unfortunate. Organized under the auspices of the early church these workers had the duties along the lines of what nowadays would be called social work and visiting nursing. The most outstanding of these were the deacons and deaconesses, whose costumes were dictated by the simplicity and poverty of their life. When in the 4th century the aristocrats and wealthy women took up the task of nursing as a penance and guarantee of heavenly reward, the nursing garb was the char- acteristic Howing garments of the rich ladies of the day. However in the following period in which monasticism was prevalent, the simplest and coarsest religious garb was adopted in accordance with the regulations of the various orders. The stiff white caps of the deaconesses and the close fitting white caps of the nuns were the forerunners of the present nurse's cap. The cowl or cape or hood with which the face could be covered in humility, and the large stiflly starched white hoods are the predecessors of parts of the present day uniform of different countries. In all of them are found the motives of humility, cleanliness, protection, practicability, uniformity and equality. A white garb was decreed in 1526 for nurses in Hotel Dieu in Paris, founded by Bishop Landry of Paris and conducted by the Augustinian Sisters and the Daughters of Charity, as a means of promoting propriety outside the hospital for the nurses who were often sent out to do private duty in the homes of the poor. In the following years certain religious orders were organized exclusively for nursing in hospitals and they survived even through the years of the religious and political revo- lutions of the 16th century when the religious orders were expelled and the hospitals confiscated and placed under State control. In England the state-controlled hospitals were in the hands of ignorant, dishonest and often drunken and immoral women picked up on the streets to act as nurses, therefore one can understand the dreadful conditions of Sairy Gampl' as described by Charles Dickens in Martin Chuzzlewitn and how the once famous Bethlehem Hospital became the despicable Bedlam where nothing but cruelty and confusion reigned supreme. Hence it can easily be seen how secular nursing fell into disrepute and for its re-establishment and favorable acceptance, required many years of patient labor on the part of Frederika Munster C1833Q, later the wife of Pastor Theodor Fliedner, founders of the Lutheran Deaconessesw in Kaiserwerth, Germany, Miss Elizabeth Fry CI84OD a Quakeress who founded the Protestant Sisters of Charityv in London, England, and last but not least, Florence Nightingale 418535 who established the Nightingale Training School for Nurses in St. Thomas Hospital, London. During these years of re-adjustment for secular nursing, the Sisters of Charity quietly continued their work with over 12,ooo Nursing Sisters in the year 1850, who from the bluish grey o 4 n I ' 5, ' color of their habit received the name of 'Soeur Grises and upon the grey uniform of Sister Ieanne Rendu the Cross of the Legion of Honor was once pinned by the Emperor Napoleon. . Forfy-zzfllc