Keywords: Female patients
Item 16261
Women's Surgical Ward, Eastern Maine General Hospital, Bangor, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Eastern Maine Medical Center Date: circa 1910 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 16260
Eastern Maine General Hospital's Women's Medical Ward, ca. 1911
Contributed by: Eastern Maine Medical Center Date: circa 1911 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine Medical Center, Bramhall Campus
Maine Medical Center, founded as Maine General Hospital, has dominated Portland’s West End since its construction in 1871 on Bramhall Hill. As the medical field grew in both technological and social practice, the facility of the hospital also changed. This exhibit tracks the expansion and additions to that original building as the hospital adapted to its patients’ needs.
Exhibit
Sarah Sampson: Caring for Soldiers, Orphans
Sarah Sampson of Bath went to war with her husband, a captain in the 3rd Maine Regiment. With no formal training, she spent the next four and a half years providing nursing and other services to soldiers. Even after her husband became ill and returned to Maine, Sampson remained in the Washington, D.C., area aiding the sick and wounded.
Site Page
Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3
"… home making a room surgically clean; preparing a patient for operation, even for abdominal surgery; administering ether anesthesia by drop method…"
Site Page
Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Story
How I broke the mold for women to serve in the military
by Mary D. McGuirk
My life and career as a USAF Nurse
