![I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-asked-my-father-what-there-was-to-make-doctoring-more-disgusting-than-nursing.jpg)
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