The new medicine and its dependence on good nursing

Hospital nursing in the first part of the century

The ward system: a doctor-driven reform

Early efforts at training

Nursing at the crossroads, part I: ladies and religious sisters in the Crimean war

Nursing at the crossroads, part 2: working-class nurses in the Crimean War

St John's House and its mission

The St John's House central nursing system

The demise of sisterhood nursing and the central system.