 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The nurse whom they had found was rather distinguished in her profession, and had been the Sister in charge of a hospital in Serbia during the War. The whole hospital had been captured by the Germans, and the nurses removed to Bulgaria. She was never tired of telling me how intimate she had become with the Queen of Bulgaria. She was a deeply religious woman, and told me when I began to get better that she had seriously considered whether it was not her duty to let me die. Fortunately, professional training was too strong for her moral sense.
Source: Bertrand Russell: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 3: China, 1968
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Russell stayed in China from autumn 1920 to early July 1921 (with Dora Black, whom he would marry on his return) at the invitation of the China Lecture Society, lecturing and giving talks at Peking University and elsewhere in China. The days in China were very pleasant for Russell. However, in the middle of winter he caught the flu and was admitted to a German-run hospital in Beijing in critical condition. However, he was lucky to survive thanks to the Rockefeller Institute in Beijing, which provided him with a serum that killed Streptococcus pneumoniae.
After recovering, he spent two weeks in Japan on his way back to the UK.