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	nursing nursing science of providing continuous care for sick or infirm people. While nursing as an occupation has always existed, it is only in fairly recent years that it has developed as a specialized profession. The Modern Profession Nursing candidates must prepare by a rigorous course of tra... Read more
	Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale 1820-1910, English nurse, the founder of modern nursing, b. Florence, Italy. Her life was dedicated to the care of the sick and war wounded. In 1844, she began to visit hospitals; in 1850, she spent some time with the nursing Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria; and a ... Read more
	Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale 1820-1910, English nurse, the founder of modern nursing, b. Florence, Italy. Her life was dedicated to the care of the sick and war wounded. In 1844, she began to visit hospitals; in 1850, she spent some time with the nursing Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria; and a ... Read more
	hospital hospital institution for the care of the sick, maintained by private endowment or public funds or both. General hospitals minister to all types of illness, while special hospitals are concerned with only one disease or group of diseases. Many hospitals are maintained solely for the treatment of mil... Read more
	University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma mainly at Norman, state supported; coeducational; chartered 1890, opened 1892. The schools of medicine and nursing, with hospitals and a research foundation, are at Oklahoma City. Research facilities include an earth sciences observatory at Leonard and a biological research s... Read more
	University of Ottawa University of Ottawa at Ottawa, Ont., Canada; bilingual; provincially supported; founded 1848 as the College of Bytown. It became the Univ. of Ottawa in 1866. It has faculties of arts, administration, education, civil and common law, psychology, science, engineering, social sciences, medicine, nurs... Read more
	Edith Cavell Edith Cavell , 1865-1915, English nurse. When World War I broke out, she was head of the nursing staff of the Berkendael Medical Institute in Brussels. In 1915 she was arrested by the German occupation authorities and pleaded guilty to a charge of harboring and aiding Allied prisoners and assisting ... Read more
	Lillian D. Wald Lillian D. Wald , 1867-1940, American social worker and pioneer in public health nursing. In 1893 she organized a visiting nurse service, which became the nucleus of the noted Henry Street Settlement in New York City. The U.S. Children's Bureau (founded 1912) was suggested by her, as were other publ... Read more
	Daniel Hale Williams Daniel Hale Williams 1858-1931, American surgeon, b. Hollidaysburg, Pa., M.D. Northwestern Univ., 1883. As surgeon of the South Side Dispensary in Chicago (1884-91), he became keenly aware of the lack of facilities for training African Americans like himself as doctors and nurses. As a result he or... Read more
	University of Alberta University of Alberta at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1906, opened 1908. It has faculties of arts, engineering, medicine, agriculture, law, dentistry, education, pharmacy and pharmaceutical science, science, graduate studies and research, business, and... Read more

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	Wet-Nursing Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...themselves in arrears to the wet nurse. Infants paid the price...employment agencies for wet nurses), and the working poor competed for fewer and more expensive nurses, Parisian police authorities...combine the four existing wet-nurse bureaus into a municipal Bureau of ...
	wet-nursing Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...suckling. A second form of unpaid wet-nursing involved the use of...nineteenth centuries. Commercial wet nurses received remuneration...Pharaoh sends her slave to hire a wet nurse for the baby Moses and...heyday of the commercial wet nurse. In some cases, families sent their ...
	British Colonialism in India Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...perceived helplessness among British mothers. Wet Nurses, Ayahs, and Bearers In the subcontinent...mothers generally depended on Indian wet nurses to nurse their children, as European wet nurses were not available and British physicians...
	Infant Feeding Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...to write about it. Using a wet nurse never became common practice...settlement, and the paucity of wet nurses. Mothers intuitively understood...baby or they might hire a wet nurse. Families also advertised...desired qualifications. Wet nurses were usually nursing ...
	infant feeding Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...daily for four days. Wet nursing A Sumerian lullaby...parents and employed wet nurses — probably...Hebrew women for a wet nurse to feed the infant Moses...that Deborah was the wet nurse to Rebecca and that Ruth...mother-in-law Naomi to nurse. Around the time ...
	Mothering and Motherhood Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...birth or social mother, include grandmothers, siblings, wet nurses, governesses, foster mothers, live-in or commuting baby...agricultural labor. They brought infants to the mother to nurse. Commuting babysitters did the same but did not sleep with...
	Aristocratic Education in Europe Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...children by choosing masters, mistresses, and servants and planning marriages and careers. Babies had wet nurses, who fed them, and dry nurses, who took care of them in other ways – for example, rockers to rock the cradles. Aristocratic...
	Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...a.d. by Greek physician Soranus of Ephesus instructs mothers and wet-nurses (female servants who were nursing or breast feeding their own child and who also would nurse the baby of their mistress or employer) never to sleep with infants...
	Child Care Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...children have been cared for at home by a variety of caregivers including, but not limited to, servants, slaves, wet nurses, and mammies. Even in recent history the more modern views of mothers staying at home to care for the children while...
	Foundlings Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...made, however. In both Europe and the United States, competition from middle-class families created a shortage of wet nurses who could foster children or who wanted to work, often feeding more than one child, in the cramped conditions of the...

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	wet nurse Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English wet nurse • n. chiefly hist. a woman employed to suckle another woman's child. • v. ( wet-nurse ) [ tr. ] act as a wet nurse to. ∎ inf. look after (someone) as though they were a helpless infant.
	nurse Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English nurse / nərs / • n. a person trained to care...trained to take charge of young children: her mother's old nurse. ∎ archaic a wet nurse. ∎ [often as adj. ] Forestry a tree or...
	Rollet, Joseph-Pierre-Martin Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...virus ” and the glass industry soon mechanized the operation, substituting compressed air for human breath. Wet nurses were blamed for infecting infants with syphilis. Rollet showed that the reverse often was the case: babies with congenital...
	Lanci, Giuseppe ("Beppe") Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Aprile (Moretti); Tu ridi (You Laugh ) (Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani) 1999 La Balia (The Nanny ; The Wet Nurse ) (Bellocchio) Publications On LANCI: article— "Italian cinematographers: le nuove tendenze," in Cineforum...
	Cúchulainn Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...his teacher; (5) Conall Cernach , to be his foster-brother and virtual twin; (6) Findchóem , to be his wet nurse; and (7) Conchobar, to be his principal foster-father. The story of Cúchulainn's boyhood deeds, as...
	Lantz, Walter Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Out ; Beau and Arrows ;Making Good ; Let's Eat ; The Winged Horse ; To the Rescue ; Cat Nipped ; A Wet Knight ; A Jungle Jumble ; Day Nurse ; The Athlete ; The Busy Barber ; The Butcher Boy ;Carnival Capers ; The Crowded Snores ; The Underdog...
	flush Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...quantities of water to pass through it: flush the toilet the nurse flushed out the catheter. ∎ [ intr...of the same suit. flush 4 • n. Ecol. a piece of wet ground over which water flows without being confined to a definite...

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Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus nurse • noun 1. skilled nurses synonyms : caregiver, RN, LPN, nurse practitioner, physician...governess, au pair, babysitter; wet nurse. • verb...breast-feed, suckle, feed; wet-nurse. 4. they...

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	Feature: Wet nurse in south China province sparks controversy News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 6/14/2006; 631 words ; Feature: Wet nurse in south China province...maintain a slender figure. A wet nurse is their preferred choice...insist that being a wet nurse is merely a job. "We shall...whether we are in favor of wet nurses or not, but it is very...
	The last taboo: China's super rich splash out on wet nurses Young mothers lured by up to eight times salary to suckle offspring of the wealthy Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/3/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...television to interview one of its wet nurses. Its director, Zhao...journalist posing as a would-be wet nurse. "We like to order our wet nurses while they're still pregnant...In reality, however, wet nurses are becoming just another modern...businesswoman who intends to ...
	Infants, Parents and Wet Nurses: Medieval Islamic Views on Breastfeeding and Their Social Implications.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review) Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; Infants, Parents and Wet Nurses: Medieval Islamic Views on Breastfeeding...the nature of relations with wet nurses, as well as "power structures" within...is the man who chooses and hires the wet nurse--women also played to their advantage...
	THE RETURN OF THE WET NURSE; Arrangement: Sarah Hastings and childminder Mary, who both breastfed Zoe. Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/8/2007; 700+ words ; ...most women, the ancient art of wet nursing remains the last taboo...to breastfeed - who want wet nurses for their babies. Robert Feinstock...believes that byoffering wet nurses, he has tapped into a much...imagine Irish womenopting for the wet nurse route. Irish mothers, she...
	Wet nurse plan dumped in its infancy Newspaper article from: China Daily; 2/21/2005; ; 494 words ; YANGZHOU: Plans to provide wet nurses have aroused strong public opposition...company had planned to begin providing wet nurses after the holiday period for...need human milk. The first batch of 13 wet nurses, aged 25-30, were ready to...
	THE RETURN OF THE WET-NURSE; Arrangement: Sarah Hastings and childminder Mary, left, who both breastfed Zoe. Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 9/7/2007; 700+ words ; ...taboo of modern motherhood. Wet nursing, cross-nursing...British aristocracy employed wet nurses to feed their babiesbecause...when doctors realised that wet nurses might be passing oninfections...breastimplants, who want wet nurses for their babies. In the UK...wereseeking a ...
	THE RETURN OF THE WET-NURSE; Arrangement: Sarah Hastings and childminder Mary, who both breastfed Zoe. Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 9/7/2007; 700+ words ; ...taboo of modern motherhood. Wet nursing, cross-nursing...British aristocracy employed wet nurses to feed their babiesbecause...when doctors realised that wet nurses might be passing oninfections...breastimplants, who want wet nurses for their babies. In the UK...wereseeking a ...
	Wet nurses Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 7/6/2008; 293 words ; NON-BIOLOGICAL WET nurses are not a new phenomenon unlike today...the latter is an endocrine disruptor. Wet nurses were engaged in the middle ages...are irretrievable. I hope that future wet nurses are given a full medical assessment...
	In the 1890s, a wet nurse contracted syphilis from a baby -- and sued. Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/2/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...could be transmitted through wet-nursing had been known practically...the babies' mouths with their nurses' nipples put the women at extreme...women who had served as wet nurses in the city's foundling home...She applied for work as a wet nurse, was subjected to a medical...
	Dog turns wet nurse to save lives of baby red panda cubs in Chinese zoo Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 7/17/2009; ; 452 words ; ...milk and tender loving care from an unlikely wet nurse - a dog. The baby pandas were born at Taiyuan...he said. "We hurriedly went about finding a wet nurse for them," said Ha. The canine wet nurse belonged to a farmer from a nearby suburb...