title: Heroines of '98: female Army nurses in the Spanish-American war.
abstract: Experiences of female Army nurses-their devotion to duty, contributions, and successes as well as their trials, tribulations, and sufferings--during the Spanish-American War and afterwards are described. How service by the heroines of '98 led to a change of attitude by the Army Medical Department is sketched. At the beginning of the War with Spain, the Medical Department had been reluctant to use female nurses; by the end of the war, the nurses had so demonstrated their value that Congress established permanent Army Reserve Nurse Corps.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005845:Georgia; D006676:History of Nursing; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008888:Military Nursing / Q000266:history*; D009726:Nurses / Q000600:supply & distribution; D012499:Sanitation; D013030:Spain; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control; D014481:United States; D014857:Warfare; D015004:Yellow Fever / Q000517:prevention & control