South Highland Infirmary School of Nursing - Nightingale Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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w., X X X X ix i . x XX X, 1 If unior Class History Since the beginning of time, caring for the sick has been a sacred calling. Mythology tells us the story of jason: how he learned the value of herbs for the curing of diseases, and in administering to the sick he became the favorite pupil in the School of Old Chiron. Sacred history gives us many instances of healing the sick. Christ, the Great Physician, was untiring in llis work of relieving diseased humanity. To-day the vocation of caring for the sick is so widely recognized that every city has its own hospitals. In the year of one thousand, nine hundred and ten, this class was organized in the South lflighlands lnhrmary. First we served our time as probationers, a period of sterilizing. scrubbing and washing. Then we were accepted as nurses in the Training School, and given patients to care for. .-Xs the Indians of Olden Times practiced their jugglery to exorcise the evil spirits, so likewise, with our magic hypof' we quiet our restless patients. Time passes and experience and self-control are gained, and we are promoted to the operating room. Here we learn the true mean- ing of the word clean -sterilization, disinfection, etc. TWC see demonstrated the uses of the powerful anaesthetics-ether, chloro- form and oxygen. Also the skillful surgeon, with his various in- struments, excising the diseased parts of the human anatomy. .Nt last we come to the most interesting and useful part of our education in the Training School-the culinary department. I-lere we are taught to prepare delicacies and to serve them so temptingly that even the most fastidious epicurians are tempted to eat. XYith all this knowledge gleaned in our two years' hospital ex- perience we are now ready to take up our great life-work-nursing -in which field, l dare say, many of us will be heard from laterg perhaps in the role of a Clara llarton or a Florence Nightingale. D355 We saw a thing of greenish hueg We thought it was a lawn of grass, But as to it we nearer drew, We found it was the Senior Class. -JUNIORS.

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A Doggerel on Past Memories and Future Advice Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight And bring back past memories just again tonight So I may tell my friends in what a lix That I got into with my appedixl As the same thing may happen unto you, Now listen! and I'll tell you just what to do: I think it was six years ago, or more, That my appendix got to be very sore For what cause, to me, he would not explain, But still he caused me a great deal of pain. l-le made me roll and tumble so in bed Until I would just as soon have been dead. I linally told him that he must go: I wouldn't keep a fellow that would do me so. l-le pleaded so hard for me to let him stay And said he'd never again be in my way. As I had been taught to always forgiye I thought I'd try again with him to live. For a long while things were calm and sereneg The promises he made I thought he did mean: Until one evening-'twas just before night- He decided he'd try to get up a light. I reasoned and plead the very best I could, But nothing I said would do any good. So in that light we had a hard tumble. Hut in a few days he gfrt very humble. .Xnd claimed that he was only in fun. And was sorry, indeed, for things he had rl-rne. He asked me again to please let him stay: I told him no! tltat he was in my way, l went to Dr. Edward Prince by name. .Xnd found him to be KING in surgical fame' I told him frankly of the trouble l'd lead. He said: Young man. your appendix is had: If you will allow me. l'll speak very plain. I would not partnership with him again. The doctor's advice l at once did take. And told him all his arrangements t-w make To sever the partnership close and clean. For the little rascal had been so very mean. So in ten minutes our partnership was f-yer. .-Xnd I felt like a pig rolling in cloyer. Advice unasked for we so often f -.'t- rget. Then later on we may sometime regret. Now the words that l speak will you please lived? If a good surgeon you should ever need Go to Doctor Prince as quick as you canf I-Ie's KING. not Prince. as a surgical man -From R1-oni X