Louisa May Alcott served as a nurse in the
Louisa May Alcott served as a nurse in the Union Hospital at Georgetown, DC in 1862. She contracted a severe case of typhoid in her sixth week, ending her service. Based on her letters home before she her illness, she published Hospital Sketches in 1863, which received good reviews
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