Chapter vii., “The Providence of the Barrack Hospital,” gives an account of Miss N.'s work. This is one of the most important authorities, being the testimony of an eye-witness and a medical man; but Dr. Pincoffs was not at Scutari till the middle of 1855.
(15) Soyer's Culinary Campaign: being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. By Alexis Soyer. London: G. Routledge, 1857.
Also of much value, as the record of an eye-witness, and a participator in Miss Nightingale's work.
1860
(16) An unpublished MS., found among Miss Nightingale's papers, written by “R. R.,” a Private in the 68th Light Infantry, giving an account of his attendance upon her. He had been invalided from the Crimea, and in January 1855 Mr. Bracebridge selected him for duty as messenger to Miss Nightingale: Vol. I. p. [256].
1861
(17) “What Florence Nightingale has done and is doing.” An article [by Mrs. S. C. Hall] in the St. James's Magazine, April 1861.
Gives an account, inter alia, of the early days of the “Nightingale Nurses.”