Best Florence Nightingale Quotes
- The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light. Constantly
- 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… Been
- The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations… Amount
- Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do… Calling
- All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of… Accompanied
- The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all,… Administration
- If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has… Bed
- Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us,… Ago
- A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature. Air
- The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its… Arranged
- Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved. Affection
- I can stand out the war with any man. Any
- Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more… Beauty
- I can expect no sympathy or help from my family. Expect
- For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without… All
- The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply. Cleanliness
- Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently… Absence
- Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch. Activity
- 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… Actual
- I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse. Called
- There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions Conditions
- 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… Conditions
- We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation… Act
- Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little… Body
- When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is… Almost Universal
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