Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Kate Marsden

  • Path of compassion

    Raisa ZubarevaWarsaw, Poland 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 on 29 May 1931. She had been the ministering angel of Siberians affected with leprosy. Kate Marsden was born in May 1859, the youngest of seven children.…