ISBN: 0091937566
(9780091937560)
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'Never had I seen so many fleas! Startled by the daylight, they leapt in all directions, particularly mine. Quickly I peeled off her stockings and threw them on the fire, but by now the fleas had invaded her combinations. As for the fur coat, I shuddered to think'. Training in a hospital in the 1930s, Edith Cotterill's long hours on the wards included encouraging leeches to attach to patients (a task much harder than you might think) and the disposal in the furnace of amputated limbs. Although hospital life did have its compensations - it was there during the Second World War an injured sailor who became her husband. After the birth of their two daughters, Edith returned to work in the 1950s as a district nurse. Whether she was ridding ageing spinsters of fleas or dishing out penicillin and enemas, Edith approached even the most wayward of patients with humour, compassion and warmth.
What the papers say:
Tales of a Blackcountry district nurse.
Laughter and tears are never far away in Edith Cotterill's hilarious, racy account of her life as a district nurse.
Her patients ranged from Mrs Tibbs, a randy old warhorse who thrived on belligerency, to Martha Gamp, whose specialities included cow-pat poultices......
Their encounters leap off the page, and Edith Cotterill adds a salty Backcountry humour that is all her own.
"Ought to provide the perfect antidote to today's bureaucratic National Health service" Daily Mail
"Touching and tender, full of comic but courageous characters, Edith Coterill's NURSE ON CALL goes straight to the heart" She
Author's biography:
Edith Cotterill was born in Tipton, Staffordshire, during a Zeppelin raid in 1916. She joined the nursing profession in 1934, working at Standon Orthopaedic Hospital and Margaret General and District Hospital, and married a sailor in the Royal Navy in 1940. After the birth of her two daughters, she returned to nursing as a district nurse back in Tipton. She died in 1977.
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