AAHN Nursing History Calendar; August 2008
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Compassion may provide the motive,
but knowledge is our only working power.
M A Nutting

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Also on August 1: Jane Hitchcock born in 1863
Also on August 3rd: 1861
Congress authorized Surgeon General to employ women as nurses for Army Hospital for $12.00/month
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Mary E Mahoney graduates New England Hosp. for Women & Children
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1915   Edith Cavell arrested in Brussels for harboring French & British soldiers
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1849
Lucy Lincoln Drown born in Providence RI
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1891
Anne L. Austin born in Ischua NY
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1955   Male nurses commissioned for Army Reserve for assignment to ANC Branch
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1876      12
Mary R. Rinehart born Allegheny PA
1909   Jane Delano becomes Supt. ANC
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1910
Florence Nightingale died
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1901
Clara L. Maass died in Havana Cuba
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1908
National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses founded
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1859
Isabel A. Hampton born Welland ONT
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1914
Edith Patton Lewis born in Philadelphia PA
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