I PAGE At School--Determined to be a Nurse--Royal Red Cross instituted--Preliminary Training 1
Visit to Tenerife--A Storm in the Bay--The Beauties of the Island 3
Up the Cañadas--Voyage Home on a Cargo-boat--Call at Madeira 8
First Experiences in a Hospital--The Food--Some Medical Cases--My First "Special" Case 14
Moved to a Surgical Ward--In Quarantine--A Poisoned Hand--"Kathleen" 19
In the Out-Patient Department--Food improved, and Heavy Work reduced--Act as Night Sister for two nights--Am offered a post as Staff Nurse--My first Certificate 25
To South Africa for a year--Voyage out on the _Scot_--By train from Cape Town to Kimberley 31
Life on the Diamond Fields--I meet Mr. Cecil Rhodes--The Kimberley Exhibition 37
A Visit to Cape Town--Up Table Mountain--Return to Kimberley 42
On Circuit in Cape Colony--A Visit to Natal--The Doctor's Fee 48
East London and Port Elizabeth--Down a Diamond Mine (Kimberley)--Return to England 54
Accepted for training at a General Hospital--I begin in a Medical Ward--A sudden death 60
On the Surgical side--A heavy "Take-in" week--Lectures on Physiology 66
My first Typhoid Case--Diphtheria Tracheotomies--The Rescue of the Cat--On Night Duty 71
Christmas in Hospital--The Dispensing Examination--Acting Assistant Matron--Three Weeks on Duty in an Infirmary 77
First Sister in the Front Surgery--A Bad Accident--A Dog with a Broken Leg 83
Temporary Ward Sister--Appointed Night Sister--Interesting Work--Join the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses--I spend Christmas warded as a Patient 89
Chloroform for a Cat--I Volunteer for Plague Duty (refused)--Appointed Ward Sister--A Fire Alarm--A Holiday in Switzerland--A Bomb in Paris 95
I go to Egypt--Nursing at Sea in rough weather--At Helouan--Ride out to the Pyramids--The Kasr-el-Aini 102
Up the Nile by Tourist Steamer--At Luxor--"Hare and Hounds" on Donkeys 109
War in the Soudan--Night and Day Nursing 115
Sent up to Assouan--Down the Nile on a Post Boat--A Saunter Home across the Continent 120
Back to my old Hospital--In a Ward for Women and Children--Christmas in a Men's Accident Ward 126
Scarlet Fever--At Marlborough House with R.N.P.F. Nurses 132
The Boer War--A Lucky Meeting at the War Office--Joined the Army Nursing Service Reserve--Choosing fittings, &c., for a Hospital of 100 beds 137