dankie
New member
- Joined
- Nov 7, 2013
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Twi
- Home Country
- Ghana
- Current Location
- Ghana
maryseacole was born in 1805 in Kingston Jamaicaher mother practiced as a “doctress” using medical knowledgewhich women had brought from Africa and developed in the tropics fromher mother mary inherited her medical skills as well as her abilityto run a boarding school from her father a scottish military man sheinherited her fascination with army life marys own medical reputationwas established during a series of cholera and yellow fever epidemicsshe made her own medicine and emphasized high standards of hygiene aswell as enforcing strict quarantine on victims by this methods shesaved many lives on the outbreak of the crimean war mary volunteeredher services to the British army although she had worked for the armybefore as its own request this time she was turned down undauntedmary made her own way to the war zone once in the crimea she not onlynursed the soldiers but also ran a hotel and sold food wine andmedicines after the war mary was treated as a celebrity she wasdecorated by the governments of four countries in England a poem inher honor was published in punch and even the rooyal family requestedher company and medical expertise.
