ABSTRACT
The new basis of the visiting-nurse service which the authors thus inaugurated reacted almost immediately upon the relationship of the nurse to the patient, reversing the position the nurse had formerly held. No one can give greater tribute than do the nurses of the settlement to the generosity of physicians and surgeons when the authors recall how often paying patients were set aside for more urgent non-paying ones; the counsel freely given from the highest for the lowliest; the eager readiness to respond. They were prudent enough to report the authority and treatment given, with solemn etiquette, to the physician in attendance, who in turn congratulated us on having helped him to save a life! Not all our encounters with this class of practitioner were fruitful of benefit to their patients.
