Abraham Lincoln and Rebecca Pomeroy

[Davey Do]

In honor of Mr. Lincoln's 210th birthday, I thought I'd link you up to a good read about a great nurse and one of our greatest Presidents:

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0031.204/--one-of-the-best-women-i-ever-knew-abraham-lincoln?rgn=main;view=fulltext

[brownbook]

Thanks, that was amazing...it'd make a great book or movie.

[Davey Do]

And I thank you, brownbook!

In the same time period during the Civil War, Walt Whitman, famous poet, teacher and journalist, was also a male nurse.

Some of Whitman’s most famous poems are written about his time as a nurse, including “The Wound Dresser,” which describes the act of nursing to the ill and dying:

I onward go, I stop,

With hinged knees and steady hand to dress wounds,

I am firm with each, the pangs are sharp yet unavoidable,

One turns to me his appealing eyes—poor boy! I never knew you,

Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.

[BarrelOfMonkeys, BSN, RN]

Fantastic read! Thanks for sharing some great history!