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 NIGHTINGALEMarriage 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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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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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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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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