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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.

Florence Nightingale

Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
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
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Condition Sick Specific
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Constitute Element Goodness Nurse Reality Sick
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Experience Gain Nurse Progress Word
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Affection Herself Love Woman
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Journey Ourselves Place Special

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