Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Then there were lectures. There was the study of the actL)al nursing
procedures, and then we had a course of kct-s. We doctor tvin"
us lectures; old Doctor Langdon gave our obstetrics. got a h dred
on that and I was s--I was held up an an example.
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Q. A good example.
A. (laughter) We had obstetrics as a lecture. Miss Hansr was our
teacher for the practical end; we studled materia mdica. 1
That's a big title. What is materia mdica?
A. It's the dosage and the different medicines and so
taught the practical end of it, too, that you must
but the other side of the label on the bottle and
would just never occur to a girl that hadn't been
see, we had sore pediatric nursing.
Q. Who tau@ that? Was there a doctor in charge?
A. No, we had no pediatrician in town, but Doctor Munson was the doctor
who took care of mre patients, children patients, during trahtng and
during rqy practical work, private duty nursing. He'd @ways hunt for
E and I can tell a little story right here. No, I'm getthg over to the
graduation. RemLnd m later. Then that would be how Pk. Wdds cam and got
me. Surgical nursing, Kss Matthews ta@t.
Q. Was there a doctor involved in that, too?
A. Yes, old Doctor Dixon. He's the one that told the stm about the instruments;
the time he took the bone out of the man's thrmt. So that's him.
So that I s what I remrrber of his teaching, but he taught bandaghg, too.
He said, 'Where's that nurse naw?n So I was gotten and I 7 ad to go 3n the
dressing room. There was a maa? with a foot that maybe ha a toe over here
and a toe over here and mybe none [in between]. Well, tNn you had to
rmke a decent looking bandage aa? it.
Q. You man he'd just lost thme toes in between?
A. Yes. Well, I'm just making that up. Maybe that woul&'t be, but it
had to come out and be a nice txmdage. You're ping dong this way and
then you swftch and switch again to rrake it smaller.
Q. You're switching your gauze each time you say that.
A. The bandaging, he taught m that, Doctor Dixon. I tol&lhctor--that
story recently and told him about the bone, too, in the t at. Well,
really there wasn't so much Now when I caw to postgraduate
training, that was mx-e
collegiate if you want ko call it that.
But not so [with the early tr g]; it was mstly practi@al.
Q. Did you have to pay
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