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    Linda Richards - Considered America's first trained nurse. A "Women of Courage" profile.

    Mother of the Union Army - The story of Mary Ann Bickerdyke, who delivered supplies from her church to a medical camp in Illinois, and stayed to nurse the sick and wounded for four years and nineteen battles.

    Profiles in Caring: Lillian D.Wald - Biography of the founder of the Henry Street Settlement, the forerunner of the Visiting Nurse Society of New York.

    Hall of Fame Inductee: Clara Louise Maass - From the American Nurses Association: Profile of one of the nation's most courageous nurses, Clara Louise Maass lost her life during scientific studies to determine the cause of yellow fever.

    Sally Louisa Tompkins - Opened one of the most successful hospitals during the civil war, returning more of its patients to the ranks than any other medical care facility. She was the only woman to hold a commission in the Confederate States Army.

    Mary Eliza Mahoney - A profile of the first African-American professional nurse.

    Profile - Sophie Mannerheim - A famous nurse known as pioneer of modern nursing in Finland. A Finnish stamp was dedicated to her.

    Edith Cavell - A British nurse executed during the First World War. A statue in St. Martin's Place, just off London's Trafalgar Square, bears the words, 'Humanity, Fortitude, Devotion, Sacrifice'--fitting tributes to the life she led. Authored by Abraham Unger, M.D.

    Nurse Edith Cavell - In 1914, she harbored allied soldiers from behind the Germans lines. Story By Peter Clowes.

    Spotlight - Jo Anne Ashley - A nurse, author and educator. She was a staunch advocate of the role of nursing in the health field, power in nursing and the historic perspective of nursing.

    Military Nurses of Canada - A profile of The Lady Nelson - a Canadian hospital ship. An excerpt from Volume II of the Military Nurses of Canada. Ruth (Littlejohn) McIlrath's recollections of the army nurses who had staffed this ship during the war.

    Aunt Lizzie Aiken from Peoria - Excerpt of a memorial book written in 1906 describing Mrs. Aiken services to the soldiers at Shawneetown in 1861.

    Florence Guinness Blake - Inducted into the ANA Hall of Fame in 1996. A distinguished pediatric nurse who strove to advance education in pediatric nursing.

    Adah Belle Samuel Thoms - A crusader for equal opportunities for blacks in nursing. She was one of the first to recognize a new field for nursing, public health.

    Louisa Maertz - Profile: Louisa Maertz, 1837-1918, an untrained United States Civil War nurse.

    Leaders of the American Red Cross - Profiles of founder Clara Barton and subsequent leaders of the organization.


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