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160 i6o A Short History of Nursing nursing system. Mary Agnes Snively devoted herself to the Toronto school; Mary Brown to the Connecticut in New Haven, Isabel Hampton went from Bellevue to the Illinois training school, and from there to the Johns Hopkins. Isabel Mclsaac, associated with her in Chicago, was for a long time her successor in Chicago, and then was appointed Army Nurse Superintendent. Lystra Gretter, in Detroit, at the Farrand training school, exerted a far-reaching influence in the Middle West, and to her belongs the credit of working out the first eight hour hospital day, in 1890, at a time when few others had even thought of it. Lucy Quintard also went from training school management into visiting nursing administration. These were some of the older women who laid the foundation stones to which the younger ones have brought and are bringing their contributions. The women who had thus brought nursing re- form through what we may call its first phase were a strong, determined, and intrepid set of workers, full of energy and the uncompromising spirit of the reformer. Their work was largely housecleaning on an extended scale. They warred against physical dirt and disorder, against im- morality and irresponsibility, political corruption, and every form of opposition and hostility. They