Uncertain Tomorrows

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"One day I was called to the villa of Elsa Maxwell, known for her famous house parties, with the request that I take with me the high colonic washout apparatus. The party of eight people had spent the weekend feasting on a plane load of food sent out from Fortnum and Mason, containing steak and kidney puddings, roast beef joints and Yorkshire puddings etc. I was kept busy with my apparatus for two days!"

Elsie Gladman trained as a nurse in London in the 1930's, a career choice which was to take her to Paris and then south to the Riviera. At the outbreak of War, she and her colleagues returned to England, but restless, Elsie returned to France, to sunny Bank Hospital in Cannes, where, for the next four years she was to experience life under the German and Italian occupation. After the war ended, Elsie Gladman accepted the post of Matron at the British American Hospital in Nice where she worked for seventeen years until her retirement in 1968. During her service to the medical profession, her many patients included a cross section of the rich and famous from around the world. For her services to nursing, Elsie Gladman became an MBE in 1965. A fitting tribute to a dedicated nursing career.

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