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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.

Florence Nightingale

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
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave Woman
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Fight Live Man Murder Myself Stand
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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Act Alone Condition Cure Himself Nature Patient
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Chance Embrace Ignorance Marriage Offering Woman
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.
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Harm Hospital Necessary Principle Sick Strange
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience
Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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Affect Color Effect Physical Way
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
I can stand out the war with any man.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Man Myself Stand War

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