I use the word nursing for want of a better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEReligious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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