A very interesting and necessary branch of our work was the X-Ray Department. We had possessed an X-Ray room ever since we had been at Hoogestadt, but it now sprang suddenly into fame, being reorganized by no less a person than the renowned Madame Curie, who discovered radium! For two or three weeks she lived with us, sharing our daily life, sitting next to us at meals, the most unassuming and gentlest of women. Her daughter was with us too, and stayed there all that summer after her mother left to aid other hospitals. They brought their own motor-ambulance which held the dynamo which worked the X-Ray apparatus. Madame Curie used to rise about five A. M., and have an early breakfast. As I was on night duty, it was my delight to set a table out in the garden and serve her breakfast myself. Often as we sat drinking a cup of coffee she would chat with me, taking a keen interest in all our work.
Website Citation: "Chapter XV a Military Hospital." A War Nurse's Diary. Sketches from a Belgian
Field Hospital. (1918) Part Three. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Jan. 2010.
Picture Citation: We were now in the Belgian Military Hospital. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Jan. 2010.
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