Hektoen International

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Tag: Kate Marsden

  • Path of compassion

    Raisa Zubareva Warsaw, Poland   Kate Marsden, photographed in 1892 before she set off for Sakha in Siberia to search for a herb said to cure leprosy. Photo by Otto Renard, Moscow. In humble circumstances in one of London’s asylums for the insane, Kate Marsden, a nurse and philanthropist who devoted her life to saving others, died…