The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut),… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about… — 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
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
