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 NIGHTINGALEThe very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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