Marie-Grace Makes a Difference is the fifth book in the Marie-Grace and Cécile series.
Characters[]
- Marie-Grace Gardner
- Cécile Rey
- Thaddeus Gardner
- Luc Rousseau
- Lavinia Halsworth
- Océane Rousseau
- Sister Beatrice
- Katy
- Charlie
- Mrs. Lambert
Only in Marie-Grace Makes a Difference[]
Chapter by Chapter Summary[]
Chapter One: So Many Orphans[]
Chapter Two: A Desperate Mission[]
Chapter Three: Fever and Ice[]
Chapter Four: Sent Away[]
Chapter Five: All Aboard[]
Chapter Six: Joy[]
Looking Back: Health and Medicine in America in 1853[]
Discusses health and medicine in the 1800s. Topics covered:
- Unsafe living conditions in the United States during the 1850s
- Limited medical knowledge among people and doctors
- Ineffective treatment such bleeding and calomel poisoning
- Patent and cure-all medicine that didn't harm, but also didn't help as a form of treatment
- Dangerous ingredients found in patent medicine such as turpentine and kerosene
- Family health care in the 1850s
- Women and girls' volunteer efforts in the 1853 yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans
- How the role of nursing evolved from what people perceived as a religious calling to a healthcare profession