The training school established in this hospital in November, 1873, arose, like Bellevue, from the direct initiative of women who had been Massachusetts Genal Hopsital active during the Civil War, and who afterwards, in the Women's Educational Union, sought for ways to advance women and prepare them for self-support. They succeeded in gaining the assent of the trustees of the hospital to try the experiment of trained nursing under the management of a special committee of men and women. The hospital had always prided itself on superior management and a faithful personnel, and there was reluctance to alter the old system. Nor were the medical men eager for the new style. The first steps were not entirely successful, but when Miss Linda Richard-s took charge, after a year's vicissitudes she brought the school to a state of excellence and stability. One very important American hospital was reformed by Nightingale nurses. It was the Philadelphia, or Blockley, once mentioned. A Nightingale nurse at Blockley Miss Alice Fisher, who was one of the most admirable products of the Nightingale School, with an able assistant. Miss Horner, accomplished incredible things there. So great was the jealousy and the resentment of the displaced Gamps that Miss Fisher had rotten eggs
