diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering:… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
