Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare Scan: 075 Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)
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2016 July 14 Sutton Veny p.2
would enjoy work but hate working for Germans.
"doing dressings, cleaning up pus-y (pussy?) wounds, dabbing on iodine,
applying fomentations, picking out little bits of shrapnel with the
forceps and bandaging furiously." Notebook barely sufficient to track
all the dressings.
[NB: "applying fomentations" may mean something about "fermentations", a
very old term for infections. But it's the letter "o" after "f"...shrug.]
Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare Scan: 075 Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)