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Florence Nightingale, a British nurse and statistician, is hailed as the founder of modern nursing. She was born on May 12, 1820, and died on August 13, 1910. Nightingale gained fame for her nursing work during the Crimean War, where she improved the conditions of military hospitals.

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Famous Florence Nightingale Quotes

“diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.”

Shows Disease Illness Adjectives Nouns

Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

“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.”

Firsts Has Beens Known Cases Disease Patient Refuse Tea Get Better Craving Nursing Typhus

Book:Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

Source: Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

“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 nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.”

Years Sometimes Suffering Courses Process Effort Taken Week Months Periods Disease Decay Remedy Nursing Unnoticed Poisoning

Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

“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, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.”

Want Different Light Care Suffering Air Quiet Disease Administration Inevitable Diets Warmth Symptoms Incidents Nursing Cleanliness Fresh Air Punctuality

Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

“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 a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.”

Ifs Cold Bed Disease Sick Faults Patient Nursing

Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

“There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions”

Conditions Disease

Author:Florence Nightingale

“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.”

Mind Conditions Disease Weak Profession Medical Doctrine Refuge Unstable Medical Profession

Author:Florence Nightingale