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Excerpt from The Historical Development of Modern Nursing
In the hotel-dieu, the immense Paris hospital, thirty-eight men. And thirty-eight women served as nurses. The places were, in later centuries, filled by Sisters of Mercy.
The Brothers of Mercy were founded in 1534 by Juan di Dios (john of God) in Granada. They were laymen, entered the order at between eighteen and thirty-one years of age, and nursed the sick of every faith and creed. Within a hundred years they possessed 18 hospitals, and there was a time when in Spain and the West Indies they had 138 hospitals, with beds, and sick annually, and in the rest of Europe 155 hospitals, beds, and sick. Twenty-five years ago they had in Austria alone 29 hospitals, with patients.
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