ABSTRACT
The occasions have a certain similarity, in that the former had the distinction of being the first occasion in the history of trained nursing in America on which nurses had met together to discuss affairs dealing with the various interests of their profession. Among the papers read and discussed at the Congress of Nurses in 1893 were two that had a direct bearing upon the association. One, by Miss Edith Draper, was on “The Benefits of Alumnæ Associations;” the other, by Miss Mc-Isaac, on "The Necessity of an American Nurses’ Association". These two papers ably outlined the necessity for development in nursing work along the lines of organization. The plan for visiting nurses has already been successfully inaugurated, and at the present time a local society in New York is endeavoring to redeem the application of mechanico-therapeutics from the hands of charlatans and place it in the hands of trained nurses, where it belongs.
