Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEA nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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 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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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