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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.

Florence Nightingale

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Heaven One Liner Place Time
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Draw God Hard Heaven Mystic Place Time Word
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Average Observation Seduce
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Affection Herself Love Woman
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Beautiful Effect Healing
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Back Nurse Progression Stand
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Art Fine Nurse Oneself
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Brilliant Color Form Object Patience Recover
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Patient Refusal Tea
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Content Reach World
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Activity Moral Possible Sketch World
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Body Master Society Soul Treatment

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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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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