Note 257 — Chapter II · SOWING THE SEED (Nov. 1856–Aug. 1857)

This opinion is supported by an estimate of the Notes in a paper which came into my hands as this book was going to press. “This work (the Notes) constitutes in my opinion one of the most valuable contributions ever made to hospital organization and administration in time of war. Had the conclusions which she reached been heeded in the Civil War in America or in the Boer War in South Africa, or in the Spanish-American War, hundreds of thousands of lives might have been saved” (Hurd, as cited in Bibliography B, No. 47, p. 76).