Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tfttman
to hold the arm out steady and I could see everything. Tlmt was one ;
thing I had to do, but I had park of time there [in sagery] and '
then part in the dispensary, outpatient department. Adul-tls galore, very
few children, but that was interesting. When a man cows $n with his face
all pounded around here, teeth out and so forth, and the
T
xt me cows in
with his fists all cut, you'd think the two had been toge er. You bow,
the f'unny things like that.
Q. You probably saw a little bit of everything.
A. We didn '
k
t have anything like an out -patient departmn here [in Springfield]
you how. They'd corn in [to the clinic at Johns pkins] and then
we'd have all those poor old women with varicose veins th were broken and
having puss fn them all the ti=, smiling lfke everythin+ And that was
another thing that I used bandaging on that Dr. Dixon Fup#~t m. The
other thing was that I had children in the ward duty, and
f
hat's where they
told m I was too particular about bathing. They di&' t the like that.
"You'll never get thro~@," they said. I didn't. (lam )
Q. So you finally did get to your children?
I
A. Yes. And the-well of come, I should say [somthin~ of] nq7 affiliation.
I had one affiliated course and that was when I wag in the basic
training; eye, ew, nose and throat at the Prince Sanitarijum, the old Prince
Building on Seventh and Capitol. Well, that was a sanitauium in those W s ,
and the patients stayed there.
Q. Now this is when you were in nurses tralning here in $ringfield?
A. Yes, that was an affiliated, what they called an affilriated course. But
Johns Hopkins was a three manth course and I took It.
Q. You started there in the fall, did you say?
A. No, I started in the Spring, in May or June. Now let" see, does it
say here? Three mnths, 1908, Johns Hopkins Hospital. No, I don't give the
dates here except 1908, but it was smrtim becaue I lmsw I had strawberries
in Texas and then I had them in Illinois, then I had them in Baltimore.
Q. Thatls a good way to remnber.
A. (laughter) Well, I remnber because I had the hives Len I ate strawberries.
I dondt anymore.
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A. Then the next tb-~ I took out for private duty was in41 -909, the smr
of 1909, and that was for two and a half mths. And thati was on i'Q7 bston
Float ing Hospital.
Q. The Boston Float.ing Hospital?
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