God be with you till we meet again (1918)
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God be with you till we meet again (1918)
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Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)
#2I found a newspaper message from the 19th century that described a flu that gave pneumonia and undertakers hadn’t seen anything like it since the Cholera epidemics, this article was from Spain around 1840’s.
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#3What does "Keep the Bouells open" mean?
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#4What does "Keep the Bouells open" mean?
Might be "keep the bowels open"? A very medical greeting, so would be fitting here...
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#5What does "Keep the Bouells open" mean?
Unless it's something specific between them, perhaps it means to keep the heart open, to stay in kindness and compassion. Which would be a traditional, positive thing to say to a dear friend at the end of a letter. Or a physician joke between them, alternatively.
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#6Question, about this part of the letter: "I have four day nurses and five night nurses (female) a ward-master, and four orderlies".
Does anyone know why it was important to point out they were female? Were army nurses typically male?
Anyways, I'm reading about the 1918 flu a lot lately and came upon parts of this text multiple times. I'm still not sure if it's making me more or less paranoid about Covid-19, but it's definitely fascinating.
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#7Question, about this part of the letter: "I have four day nurses and five night nurses (female) a ward-master, and four orderlies". Does anyone know why it was important to point out they were female? Were army nurses typically male? Anyways, I'm reading about the 1918 flu a lot lately and came upon parts of this text multiple times. I'm still not sure if it's making me more or less paranoid about Covid-19, but it's…
I'm sure if we start a Twitter storm about it, we can get him cancelled. /s
Personally I think it was just observational, perhaps they were the only women in the place, so they were the exception. From what I know, historically nurses have been mostly female - but would be interested to find out if this was different.
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#8The Spanish flu from Kansas.
Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)
#9What does "Keep the Bouells open" mean?
KYBO is a common acronym in Scouting.
"Keep Your Bowels Open"
Whether Bouells is a typo or pun I don't know.
Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)
#10Question, about this part of the letter: "I have four day nurses and five night nurses (female) a ward-master, and four orderlies". Does anyone know why it was important to point out they were female? Were army nurses typically male? Anyways, I'm reading about the 1918 flu a lot lately and came upon parts of this text multiple times. I'm still not sure if it's making me more or less paranoid about Covid-19, but it's…
I'm sure if we start a Twitter storm about it, we can get him cancelled. /s Personally I think it was just observational, perhaps they were the only women in the place, so they were the exception. From what I know, historically nurses have been mostly female - but would be interested to find out if this was different.
Yup that was my understanding as well. Not sure why I'm being downvoted, it was a genuine question lol