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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

I can stand out the war with any man.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Man Myself Stand War
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Time Way World
Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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Body Effect Mindset Volume Writing
The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Crave Day Desire Light Return Sick
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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Family Girl Herself Opportunity Pride Shame Thinking Willing Wrong
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Adjective Experience Substance
It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Care Each Other Easy Prudent Talk
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Act Circumstance Greatness Organization World
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Activity Moral Possible Sketch World
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
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Myself Nurse Word
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Affection Herself Love Woman
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Art Fine Nurse Oneself
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Color Effect Feeling Material Object Physical
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Harm Hospital Necessary Principle Sick Strange

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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