title: The Hospital Steward's Manual: For the Instruction of Hospital Stewards, Ward-Masters, and Attendants, in Their Several Duties (American Civil War M)
author:  Joseph Janvier Woodward 
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  # Observations of an Orderly
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Ward Muir
  
  
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  I. MY FIRST DAY
  
  
  II. LIFE IN THE ORDERLIES' HUTS
  
  
  III. WASHING-UP
  
  
  IV. A “HUT” HOSPITAL
  
  
  V. FROM THE “D” BLOCK WARDS
  
  
  VI. WHEN THE WOUNDED ARRIVE
  
  
  VII. “T.... A....”
  
  
  VIII. LAUNDRY PROBLEMS
  
  
  IX. ON BUTTONS
  
  
  X. A WORD ABOUT “SLACKERS IN KHAKI”
  
  
  XI. THE RECREATION ROOMS
  
  
  XII. THE COCKNEY
  
  
  XIII. THE STATION PARTY
  
  
  XIV. SLANG IN A WAR HOSPITAL
  
  
  XV. A BLIND MAN'S HOME-COMING
  
  
  
  
  
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      Observations of an Orderly
  
  
  Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital
  
  
  
  
      
  
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