Mary Owen
This page lists items in the database related to English nurse Mary Owen (b. c. 1787; d. 28 May 1848):
Mary Owen, "Sister Rahere"1 at St Bartholomew's Hospital for thirty nine years, is often remembered as an example of very good quality nursing before the Nightingale era: "Sir James Paget remembered her in the 1830s showing an ignorant house surgeon the location of the post-tibial artery"2.