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292 292 A Short History of Nursing of men whose progressive ideas are far ahead of their day. Such men are especially desirous of advancing the woman movement, and show this by giving women an equal share in public activity whenever it is in their power to do so. Dr. P. L. Lande, as mayor of Bordeaux, medical man and generally a weighty man of extensive influence, was able to exert a great deal of quiet power, and he used this in co-operation with Dr. Hamilton in placing nurses at the head of provincial hospitals and in securing them there the correct sphere of authority. His death, in 1912, was a deep grief and a great loss to the friends of the nursing movement. Dr. Hamilton had based her training school on the principles of Miss Nightingale and stated this in all the hospital circulars. In 1918 the executors of Miss Nightingale granted Dr. Hamilton the well- merited recognition of allowing her to take for her school the name ' ' Florence Nightingale School for Nursei " after a careful inquiry into and examina- tion of its standards. As, by the laws of France, this entitled her to the sole right to use that name, her friends felt that her reward was complete. As in this country, the school is "free" both as to religious test and as to the post-graduate indepen- dence of the nurse. A bequest of land made in appreciation of Dr.