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THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN of THE FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE, Im.  
Published Quarterly by the Frontier Nursing Service, Lexington, Ky. ’
Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year
 
VOLUME 18 WINTER, 1943 NUMBER 3
"Entered as second class matter June 30, 1926, at the Post Oflice at Lexington, Ky.,
under Act of March 3, 1879."
Copyright 1943 Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.
AN INDEX IS ON PAGE 2

  ·’1
__!  ,411 Of/ertvry
  With the Music by Holst
Church of the Transfigruration
"The Little Church Around the Corner"
I · January 31, 1943
l Turn back, O man. torswear thy toolish ways.
I Old now is earth and none may count her days,
l Yet thou, her child. whose head is crowned with tlame.
Still wilt not hear thine inner God proclaim
"Turn back, O man, torswear thy toolish ways.`°
» Earth might be tair and all men glad and wise,
Age atter age their tragic empires rise. '
Built while they dream, and in` that dreaming weep.
Vl/ould man lout wake trom out his haunted sleep.
Earth might be tair. and all men glad and wise.
Earth shall be tair, and all her people one.
Nor 'till that hour shall God`s whole will be done.
Now. even now, once more, trom earth to sky
Peals torth in joy man`s old undaunted cry.
"Earth shall be tair, and all her tolk be one."
l Clifford Bax.

 V ‘ INDEX A
 
ARTICLE _ AUTHOR PAGE  
A Charming Family (illustrated) Peggy Helen Brown 17  
Beyond the Mountains h 59 iv
Chief of Timber Training Corps _ `
(illustrated) 7
Child Raid Victims New York Times 37
Field Notes (illustrated) 71
Midwifery at Hyden Hospital
(illustrated) Helen Edith Browne 3
"Nor Rain——Nor Cold——Nor- Wind-
Nor Sleet" (illustrated) Eva Gilbert 9
"Nor Rain——Nor Cold—Nor Wind-- `
Nor Sleet" (illustrated) Ruth Davis 12
Old Courier News 23
Old Staff News · 39
Rabun County Georgia Maternity
Home (illustrated) , 35
Tide-Bound Martha Cross 33
Turn Back, O Man Cli[fm·d Bax I 1
White Elephants (illustrated) 22
BRIEF BITS _ P
Acknowledgments 8
A Cynical Young Poet 16
Before Experience Sir John Herschell 16
Coming·—Blue Hill Troupe 58 _
Coming—C0rnelia Otis Skinner 58
Directions for Shipping 78 ‘
Eyes for the Needy Mrs. Arthur Terry 21 `
Just Jokes, Chirography Contributed ` 32
Just Jokes, From Punch 34 _
Just Jokes, Hurrah! Contributed 36 `  
Little Miss Etticoat (illustrated) 57 ""
The Furry Folk (illustrated) Mildred W. Stillman 75 1 Q
The Unshackling of Prisoners Christian News-Letter 38 1 »-
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‘ MIDWIFERY AT THE HYDEN HOSPITAL
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  HELEN EDITH BROWNE, R.N., s.c.M. I
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You asked me, so I had to try:  
When this has been proofread by you,  
Perhaps some parts of it will do!  
The emergency Hospital of the Frontier Nursing Service  
is situated at Hyden in Leslie County. Apart from the general  
P ward, the obstetrical unit consists of a ward and glassed in porch
with space for eight beds and nine bassinets, and a well-equipped
labor ward with a modern delivery bed. If a patient needs to be
isolated, she is cared for in the Wee Stone House (see picture l
on insidelback cover) and has special nurses. !
The Hospital nurse—midwife, under the Medical Director and  
the Superintendent, is in charge of all the obstetrical patients ,
from the time they are admitted to the Hospital. One of the
general duty nurses is assigned to help her with her routine
work when she is busy. They work in accordance with the Hos-
pital Routines which are the standing orders of the Medical
Director for Hospital cases. Patients who are abnormal are re-
ferred to the Medical Director for special orders. The Hospital [
nurse-midwife is fortunate in having the Medical Director right Y
on the spot most of the time. This is as it should be as abnormal Q
obstetrical patients, as far as possible, come to the Hospital. ,
` However, occasions do arise when the Medical Director is out Z
on the districts. She then carries on as she has been taught to
T save life. _
, Patients delivered in the Hospital are those from outside `
the territory covered by the Frontier Nursing Service, where it
_ is impossiblefor them to get other medical aid; those on our `
{ districts who have been abnormal in previous labors, or who
·"’ show some abnormality in pregnancyior at the time of admis-
* , sion; and, occasionally, a district patient who elects a Hospital
l »> delivery. ’
  There is always a small percentage of emergency cases-
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patients usually from outside the Service territory, who have
not been registered and have had no prenatal care. Here are
two examples of such emergency cases:  ·:
The first, Mary, arrived one hot summer night. A truck   _
drove up to the Hospital, and an anxious-looking man came to j'
the door and said his wife was "bad off". She had been deliv- *
ered by a local granny three weeks before and had never been H
well since. She had "wasted something terrible". Mary was
lying on bedsprings in the truck, surrounded by anxious rela-
tives. One look at the patient was enough to tell how serious
her condition was. The Medical Director was notified and Mary
was taken upstairs to a Hospital ward. She was in a state of
col1apse—no pulse could be felt, and her respirations were very
shallow. It looked as though she didn’t have long to live, so
her husband was called to her bedside. Dr. Kooser arrived and d
R started an intravenous saline right away. When he exposed the
vein it was quite collapsed and pale—in fact, Mary was "bled
out". Dr. Kooser then matched Mary’s blood with that of her
relatives and found a donor. In a short time, Mary was having .
a blood transfusion. A mircle happened right before the nurses'
eyes! Mary’s pulse came back, her breathing became normal,
and soon she was asking for a drink of water. From then on Y ,
she made steady progress. » , , it
Another emergency case, Jane, was brought to the Hospital {
one winter evening on a stretcher, having severe eclamptic 1
convulsions. Her baby was due to be born. Later we learned  
she had felt sick that morning with cramps in her stomach, and  
a bad headache. Thinking she was in labor, she sent for the  
local granny. The granny arrived and sat and chatted. Jane  
had two convulsions while the granny was there. There were no  
real signs of labor, so the granny went home, having told Jane  
to send when her pains got hard—no word about the convulsions. ;
Poor Jane was feeling so bad! Then her husband came home, =
found her having another convulsion, and decided he had better
take her to "the nurses." He got the neighbor men to help him ·
make a rough stretcher of young saplings and put Jane. on it "‘,‘
wrapped in quilts. Jane was only semi-conscious when she ar- , ,
rived at the Hospital. The Medical Director was notified right   ‘
away, and Jane was admitted for special treatment. After  
 

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three days, her toxic condition was much improved but, unfor-
tunately, the baby was born dead. A real emergency case—no
‘  prenatal care, therefore no treatment for the early signs of
  texemia which may have ee- _     -       ,,./yr   Vv,yr   .,
A A curred sometime during the “      
·§ pregnancy- A · »   {QI? ,aii;di QQ. aaaa   ei-,        
Normal patients who uva     . p _   *%.:3.;   eeen   n‘*y  
near the Hospital usually do i_   pird ’ `   5 ii.   tpyep  f  »e¤d    
not come in until labor has X   f S   W] ,p     
started; but those who live W · i S r V ti` “ r   ’   ·y’er»yp’    
some distance away come in , p p e   ° yiel gi. be _tdl Q pvvpl QW  
for a few days beforehand. As   `   p,pd ‘ ii     . j g [ ‘eysl Y eipn   l ? iii?
the years have passed, travel ,  r g_$A_     A V     1
has become easier. At first Q       Q T Q  
most of the patients came to e   `i``‘‘`’'’ A ,  
l the Hospital either on a mule  T  p_     aeea.
or by stretcher, as their condi- _       ,.·’ "  
tion allowed. Now most of      
them can get the last part of _p     M
the way, at least, by car or    ‘ i“  . - ce  é .
truck. Of course, they may  A    
. have to go back altogether to   · _  
_ the old method of travel since { Q,. r '°“`*£,i”`;*Q ~z~g;·»»·g»-» ·.a..    
gasoline and tires are hard B'!   9 A `° i   `
to get. ”"f*\,. Q.,-.,,__ g   -»a * `
i Keeping the expectant ‘··~.\`§`     i%iu`i`Mi
mothers occupied during their   »
i stay in the Hospital, so that  Q i  QQSW _
{ they do not get homesick, is   l i .,. A .
I quite a business. Some of them   A/i M o n V *
  Say   Hcan hardly Stand   And u Student 0fIti1{:}Fi¤?n{i?:??}raduute School of
E to be away from the young Midwifer>A{iw;¤5;L_r·;\%Ie)rgl§;;·3l§\‘er»’ Care
— ’uns so long". They make baby ` A
quilts from scraps of material, a few of them have made Red
Cross sweaters for the Army, and some help mend the baby
5 shirts and sew on tapes. Reading is a pleasure to many of them,
“"} "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" being one of their favorite
g 1 stories. ·
0 ' After a normal delivery the mother and baby stay for ten
  days unless they have a long mule ride, in which case the mother

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is advised to stay until her twelfth day. During the postpartum ‘ j
period, the mother is instructed how to take care of her baby f
and is shown how to bathe it. All mothers and babies get a °» 
H postpartum examination by the Medical Director before they  
T are discharged to the care of our district nurses. They are  
asked to return for a iinal check when the baby is between four `{
and six weeks old. Some of the mothers, who have the time and F
the money, make or buy their baby clothes; others depend on the {
  . lovely layettes sent us. by friends from all over the country.  
l These people have grown to know and love this Hospital and no `A
longer have any fear of the "brought on" doctor and nurses.  
. The new babies are beautiful, mostnof them are well nour-  
ished and practically all of them are breast fed. The mothers _  
establish lactation with few complications. We have our share  
of premature infants, which are kept warm and cozy in a basket  
with external heat, a thermometer being kept in with the baby,  
` so that an even temperature of 85 to 90 degrees F. may be main- E
_ tained. The smallest baby that has survived in the last few  
‘ years weighed just two pounds at birth and was the pride of  
. the Hospital when he left, being then seven weeks old and no big-  
ger than a doll. He is now a sturdy youngster with a baby sister.  
There have been the usual number of twins, and one case of  
triplets. We are now hopefully waiting for quadruplets or even  
  quintuplets !  
T There has been an increase of almost 50% in the number  
T of Hospital deliveries since 1939, which was the year the Fron-  
tier Graduate School of Midwifery started. We have more cases  
‘ from outside our territory to keep up the number of deliveries  
for the student nurse-midwives.  
The Hospital nurse-midwife supervises all work done in the  
Hospital by the students. This includes prenatal examinations,  
and treatment of prenatal abnormalities, such as toxemia, ante-  
partum hemorrhage and abnormal presentations. A student is Qi
· with the patient during labor and manages the delivery of nor- ·
mal cases under the direction of the nurse-midwife. In the event g
of an abnormal case, requiring the presence of the Medical Di- |,€a`
A rector for the delivery of the patient, all students are called to   _;
l be present. The nurse-midwife gives the students practical dem- ;
onstrations of the treatment of breasts for the promotion of  
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lactation. The Truby King method is used for stimulation of the
breasts.
Q The post of Hospital nurse-midwife is a busy one, but to
anyone who likes midwifery and the practical demonstration
  of midwifery, it offers all that can be desired. Life is full of
· interest, and the unexpected emergency is always just around
the corner.
CHIEF OF TIMBER TRAINING CORPS
A number of people sent us anything from twenty-five cents
‘ in stamps for one copy to six-dollar checks for twenty-four
copies of the little blue __     _ _ _   ,_,,  _ 
booklet called I Wanted to   ’·»i~            
Live, America by Gladys  ‘*   {
  Marcia Peacock with the       I  
E pcn-am;i-l¤k illustrations   i,,, V ’_»·         _,
il by Vanda Summem Some   3. ·`:' 5 .. _- I        
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    to give my A   lcrr      ,l     »a   an    ,,,,_  
t woman in Williamstown,       l_,.      
Q Massachusetts wrote her  _1 if    h   
, daughter who had sent her   *"  .  gi ’=’'  
g a copy thanking her for         p     _;-  f f  r
2 "the darling little booklet."     _       _,__  
g We still have some or the Q; .      .  
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' ,¥€`~`?’     Tw =’v     .`   `l
. let for sale at twenty-five ~, : ? > 
E . Cents and will gladly acccpt  y   1 _    
j postage stamps for orders.   _`,    { I    
g Readers of the booklet will     _...   
be charmed to know that   ‘t`  ; ;¢.r¤$;;i;»&?¥,,,_§
Miss Peacock is now in   *    
Yorkshire as Commwdant     ,..     if';}
  of a Women’s Timber        
{ ,· Corps training center in       3*%* Ti. 
  F the West Riding and how PEACOCK IN 1932
Q this news has reached us,
I because Peacock herself is no great shakes as a letter-writer.
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First, we had a letter from our old friend and British Trus- » U
tee, Mrs. Arthur Bray, who lives in the country in Yorkshire __ Z
and who wrote us as follows: .  
"Wh0 do you think is coming to tea with me on Sunday? tl
Peacock! . . . I saw an article in the Yorkshire Post . . . giving ` 
her connection with the F. N. S. and so forth .... I wrote the ;
Yorkshire Post for her address only to find she is living in _ 
Weatherby about a mile from me! . . . I have spoken to her on
the phone and she is to come on Sunday .... It will be fun." ;
The next news of Peacock came through the Louisville, I
Kentucky Times which copied the Yorkshire Post article with
the following caption: "Chief of timber training corps formerly j
delivered babies in Kentucky mountains? The article concludes ,;
with the following paragraphs over which Peacock’s friends will Y
pass out: 2
"And now Miss Peacock is teaching herself modern Greek Q
so as to be ready to do reconstruction work in Greece at the ¥
end of the war. It is, she says, her great ambition. y
"What does she look like, this remarkable woman? Tall,  
weather—tanned; has laughter wrinkles ’round her eyes; wears ’
corduroys, but is feminine enough to enliven her brown jersey j_
with a simple string of pearls, and has a box of face powder on Q
her dressing table." {
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ?
The cover picture of the Bulletin was taken by Mrs. Alexander C.  
Northrop (Elizabeth Harriman) when she served as a courier with the ·
Frontier Nursing Service. ;
The inside cover picture of "Imp" was taken for her owner, our nurse, ?
Patricia Simmons, by a friend, Mr. S. H. Sims of Chicago.  
The drawing of the swinging bridge was done by our nurse, Gladys  
Moberg, who knows it at first hand. {
The two photographs in the article called "Nor Rain—Nor Cold—Nor  
Wind—Nor Sleet"—and the one used in Midwifery at the Hyden Hospital  
were taken by Mrs. George Lawrence (Edith Anderson) when she came  
back over the Christmas holidays as Social Service consultant and to take  
photographs. It is not her fault that the ice had melted before she came J
to take the pictures. We want to mention with special gratitude her friend,   _
Miss Gloria Santucci, who loaned her all the equipment to take indoor 2
pictures.  
‘ The picture at the beginning of Field Notes is one that Mrs. Jefferson -
Patterson took many years ago when she was the courier and photogra- ;t
pher, Marvin Breckinridge. We have never used half of the wealth of F
photographs she took for us. gf 
The candle was drawn for us by our Hospital Superintendent, Vanda. l
3 Summers.  
The other pictures are snapshots by friends and various members of P
the staff. g ·
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THE 1Ns*1*RUoToR·s vERs1oN
. by
I EVA GILBERT, R.N., s.c.M., M.A.
? It seemed that Ruby was destined to have her baby soon,
i although we had made every attempt to continue her pregnancy
  until she could be assured of a live baby. We had excellent co-
._ operation from Ruby but it just seemed things would not go as ‘
  we had hoped.
i l On a December morning Ruth (Ruth Davis, one of the mid-
‘ wifery students from Georgia) and I made the trip across the
i river, up Owl’s Nest and over Cemetery Hill to Flackie, only to
  find Ruby not feeling even as well as usual. We did all we could
if for her and then left, warning her to call us in case anything
L more developed.
  Soon after we finished dinner that same evening, the not-
  unexpected call came, saying Ruby needed us. Albert (Ruby’s
  husband) assisted us in getting Camp and Patsy saddled, so we
  were soon on our way, dressed as warmly as possible, for the
  thermometer was falling and the night promised to be a cold
  one. I thought the river might be too high to ford but was
  assured by Albert that it was not, as he had safely crossed the
S lower ford. I did End, however, that the water was much higher
. . than it had been when we crossed earlier in the day, but as he
  had said, we could cross safely. .
  It was a dark night but with the aid of our faithful flash- `
& lights we slowly made our way up Owl’s Nest and over the
E; mountain to Flackie, arriving after about two hours, at the
S · three-roomed cabin which was Ruby’s home. Gola had a won-
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. derful fire whichwas indeed a welcome sight as we were almost .
stiff with cold. While warming we learned Ruby had started ~
. i labor about five in the afternoon. pi
We soon had our preliminary examination made and the  °
"set-up" ready, since the examinations had confirmed our sus-  ·
picions that Ruby would lose her baby. Suddenly, at about  
eleven, Ruby’s condition became worse and I realized that it ,
would be necessary to get Dr. Kooser as soon as possible. I
called Albert (who had gone into the other bedroom to "nurse"
_ the three young children) to get his mule saddled while I wrote  
a note to the doctor explaining the condition of our patient. We  
A then did all we could for Ruby and shortly her condition im-  
proved, but we were still glad to know that Dr. Kooser would  
l be coming soon.  
While Ruth watched the patient, I found a table in the  
kitchen which could be used for the doctor’s equipment and  
moved it in to Ruby’s bedroom. I also saw that there was a Z
, large kettle of boiling water and that the flat rocks were re- or
heated and wrapped in papers, then placed about Ruby to keep  
p her warm. The room was cold in spite of an excellent fire in ,
the grate. .  
We often and eagerly peered into the darkness for the light  
which would mean that help for our patient was near. After 3,
three hours we saw the light shining brightly, way up on the  
mountain side, half a mile away. As we watched it come nearer  
we realized there was but one light, wondering why, until Gola Q —,
solved the problem by saying, "They are both riding the mule."  
This meant that the rushing and rising Middle Fork was now  
past fording for horses and that they had crossed, the swinging  
bridge to the mule on this side of the river. In a short time the  
I two men were at the door, both cold and wet. For them, too,  
Gola had a hot fire, and so the doctor was soon warm enough  
_ to start work. - `  
' After his examination of the patient, Dr. Kooser started an I  
intravenous injection of Dextrose and Saline. Further treatment is ,
p was also instituted to help Ruby through her hour as quickly T ,
l as possible, for, while her general condition was improved, we {I
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, were not in vain, for about five o’clock a tiny, five months baby
. was born—dead as we knew it would be. But Ruby was over
I her pain and the blood loss which was sapping her strength.
 ° Now that we had time to talk of other things, we learned
 . from Dr. Kooser that when Albert had tried to ford the river
  on his way to the Hospital, the mule had started to swim. He
A realized the mule could not make it and quickly turned back
before the rushing current became too much for the faithful
mount. Albert had left his mule and crossed the swinging bridge
  to walk the last mile to the Hospital.
  With Ruby comfortable and the seriousness of her condi-
  tion much improved, Dr. Kooser rode off in the cold dawn on
  Camp—while Ruth and I stayed on for a few more hours. After
  a hot breakfast in a cold kitchen, we packed our saddlebags,
  reassured ourselves that Ruby would be all right until we re-
  turned the following day and started home with Ruth on the
2 mule and I on Patsy. We made our way slowly over the moun-
g_ tain and down the Owl’s Nest Creek to the river. My!—how
  cold the wind was, and strong enough, it almost seemed, to blow
, the horses sideways off the narrow path. It blinded us with
  the snow which was sharply blown in our faces.
  In time we reached the Roberts’ barn where Camp had been
  left and where we were to leave Patsy and the mule. Now for
  Ruth came the most terrifying experience she had had since
  she arrived in Hyden—that of crossing an ice-floored swinging
Q, bridge strung over the muddy, rushing waters of the Middle
  Fork. For the uninitiated any swinging bridge is frightening
  enough, but this one was even more so since it had no protect-
  ing wire sides (the bridge having been constructed after wire
gl was no longer available) and one never knew what moment a
  gust of wind, aided by the ice on the floor and the nurse’s boots,
  would make her lose her balance and go tumbling into the angry
`   waters below. I waited and watched breathlessly while Ruth
  cautiously, almost crawling on hands and knees, arrived safely
    to the other side. .
In a short time I had joined Ruth and we started walking
 in up the road towards town and the Hospital hill, with the forty-
. pound saddlebags over my shoulder. Much to my relief I saw

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' Mr. Salyers (our coal man) coming with his team of beautiful
horses and the wagon. We at once asked permission to climb .
_ in with the saddlebags. I sat on the seat and Ruth stood behind
me, hanging onto my shoulders for dear life as the road was ? I
rough. Thus we rode in style up the last steep and slippery  
hill to the Hospital and then on to the very steps of our own §
lovely Midwives’ Quarters. "
“NOR RAIN—NOR COLD—NOR WIND—— ‘
NOR SLEET" .
THE STUDENT’S VERSION .
by ¥
RUTH DAVIS, R.N. .
December 1, 1942 is a day I shall always remember. It all I
started when I asked Miss Gilbert, "How does one get to I
Flackie ‘?" When she learned that I was the only student who  
had not been introduced to this part of the district, she told  
me I could go with her to see Ruby, a threatened miscarriage  
case, who had to be seen that day. Q
It was a cloudy day but not too cold to spoil a good eight-  
mile horseback ride. In due time we reached Ruby’s home to  
find her doing fairly well. Miss Gilbert told her to call us should  
she start in labour or should she bleed any more. .  
After we left Ruby, we rode on up Flackie Creek to see  
Grace, a normal prenatal who was due to deliver soon. After {
seeing Grace I decided it would be the very thing for her to  
deliver that night. Then I would get to return to Flackie. On  
my way home I started wishing and that is really the beginning  
. of my story.  
"Miss Gilbert, I wish we would get a call to go back to Y
I Grace on Flackie tonight." Those were my very words. Sure  
enough at seven o’clock that evening the telephone rang and  
Miss Gilbert answered. It was Ruby, not Grace. "Ruby on  
Flackie/’ that’s all I heard and all I needed to hear. I rushed i
to my room to get into my uniform, raincoat and rain hat, since  g `
it was pouring. The idea of going four miles in the rain on  

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  horseback appealed to me and at eight fifteen we were well on
{ our way. The river was high but we managed to get across and ‘
  although the rest of the trip was exciting nothing of special
J_v interest happened.
  We reached Ruby’s three-roomed cabin about ten o’clock,
is to find a good fire in the grate which was most welcome. Ruby
  was found to be "punishing bad" so we did not waste any time
_   getting our delivery supplies ready. ‘
  I About midnight, Ruby was not doing so well so Miss Gilbert ~
 
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