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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

“She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.”

Feels Said Effects Objects Color Materials Nursing

Author:Florence Nightingale

“Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.”

Should Humans Light Science Human Beings Rooms Sun Air Effects Health Bed Sick Smell Breathing Rays Shutters

Book:Notes on Nursing for the labouring classes. With a chapter on Children

Source: Notes on Nursing for the labouring classes. With a chapter on Children

“People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. 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 an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.”

People Knows Way Mind Mean Littles Body Light Form Science Air Effects Objects Color Health Patient Recovery Variety Affected

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

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

“Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.”

Source: Florence Nightingale on Mysticism and Eastern Religions: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“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 an actual physical effect.”

Knows Way Littles Light Form Effects Color Affected

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

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

“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 more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.”

Mind Littles Body Wish Written Effects Volume

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

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

“Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.”

Healing Beauty Effects Underestimate Never Underestimate

Author:Florence Nightingale