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I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

Elizabeth Kenny

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Elizabeth Kenny
Age: 72 †
Born: 1880
Born: September 20
Died: 1952
Died: November 30
Nurse
Warialda
New South Wales
Australia
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