Identifier: 02820440R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: Under the Red Cross flag at home and abroad
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Boardman, Mabel Thorp, 1860-1946, author
Subjects: Red Cross Relief Work
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Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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rcy. As the white ship passed thetowering statue in the harbor. Liberty for a momentseemed to grasp in her uplifted hand the flag of the RedCross that floated at the masthead and to hold it forth atoken of Americas sympathy for war-stricken Europe. Life on board was not to be a lazy existence, but abusy one of active practice for future duties. MajorPatterson demonstrated to the surgeons the use of thefield army equipment and drilled them in its employment.The nurses were divided into many classes and certainhours of the day set aside for lessons and practice. Thetreatment of wounds, bandaging and practical exerciseswere carried on under the surgeons as instructors. Les-sons in the metric system and in languages were part oftheir studies. Adopting the European custom, the nursesdropped the formal use of the last name and took thegentler one of sister. Max Mueller says the old Aryanword for sister meant comforter. If this be true, noname better suits the calling of these devoted women.
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LIFE ON BOARD THE RED CROSS 275 The good ship was not to go unquestioned, and thefirst night out from New York there came from a watch-ful British cruiser a signal of inquiry. Ready with heranswer the red lights in the shape of the Geneva Crossflashed back the message of her mission. In the nameof suffering humanity she sailed on her way without letor hindrance. Again and again, as she approached thecarefully-guarded English coast, battleship and cruiserasked the question, and again the answer granted hersafe conduct to her destination. The British Government had designated Falmouth asher English port. There a dozen surgeons and fifty ofthe nurses lauded, the units for England and Russia,while lighters took the bales and boxes of supplies onshore. So accustomed are we to the well-regulated daysof peace that we find it difficult to understand the con-fusion of wars strange condition. Why our units werenot always promptly placed and why they had not im-mediately a large number of wounde

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