On a case of staphylococcic infection / by Sir Lauder Brunton.

  • Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.
Date:
[1904]
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Credit: On a case of staphylococcic infection / by Sir Lauder Brunton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was one nurse, and a supposed night nurse. I had at that time not only to attend to the male and female wards, but I had duty in the delirium tremens wards, and I used sometimes to come up through the male ward after being called out in the small hours of the morning by a policeman to see a case of drunkenness. One night I came up and found the night nurse stretched on a mattress in front of the fire and sound asleep. I reported this, but was told in answer that it was quite natural she should be asleep, as she had been scrubbing all day. But the nurses that I had, and whom I engaged from St. Bartho- lomew’s, were very different indeed, and 1 think that it was due to a great extent to the careful nursing I received that I recovered at all. I must also say that I really did not know how very good medical men were to one another. Amongst others there was Mr. D’Arcy Power, Sir Frederick Treves, Dr. Terrier, Dr. Tunnicliffe, my old friend Macdougall, who operated four times, and, who is one of the very best men I have ever known, and then there was one whom a year before I did not know—and that was Walsham. A year ago I thought that my colleague, Mr. Walsham, had a curious manner, that he was rather abrupt, and that he was sometimes perhaps a little brusque; but when I became ill, I found that Walsham was not only one of the most able surgeons, but one of the most tender-hearted men that it was possible to be. Much more I would say about him, but words fail to express my admira- tion for his character and powers, or the gratitude and affection which he inspired.