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that the flies which swarmed about the hospital
might not annoy them. Modern medicine has since proven that
yellow fever is carried by the bite of a misquito, and to hor
thoughtfulnexs was due the immunity of herself and hersnurses,
as well as the checky to some degree , of the scourge.
After the yellow fever had subsided, she went west
to the fields of the Copper Queen Mining Company, in Bisbee,
Arizona, then a little town lying between the Mule Mountains
on the North, and the Mexican Border. She lived in a little tin
shack, in one room of which stood her Army cot, her table with
its litter of books and flowers, and her trunk. The other room
2
was furnished as a dispensary, where the wives of the miners used
4
to come with a sick baby for the "trained nurse to look at, " or
I
dragging a child who "didnt want his throat gargled!" Sometimes
W
it was only a shouted message for"the nurse to come quick!"
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She would pick up her bag, always packed for First Aid, and hurry
cabin
down to a miner's whack, where Big Tom would be lying crushed and
silent on the bed, or where by a flickering candle, a woman lay
moaning and afraid of the ordeal and miracle ahead of her.
It wasn't easy work-L this pioneer visiting
nursing in the wilderness. It takes many lonely hours to make
up two years of such service. Nor was it without danger:
"I woke up one night to hear a queer noise
against
my shack. I sat up in bed and listened. It
sounded exactly like a person edging along the side of the wall,
so I reached under my pillow for my automatic, and waited. There
was an open window nearby through which the moonlight was coming,
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