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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

“It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?”

Knows Trying Wells Careful Be Careful Prudent

Book:The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind - with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?”

Knows Home Law Wind Walking Bird Aim Flying Enthusiasm Steady Calmness

Book:Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

“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

“The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.”

Knows Giving Two Young Science Beats Accounts Medicine Patient Prophet Exception Nurse Surgeons Drunkards

Author: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

“We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.”

Knows Way States Process Principles Teach Conditions Negative Medicine Patient Cures Observation Nursing Pathology

Author:Florence Nightingale

“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 about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.”

Knows Feels Littles Science Natural Sick Universal Patient Coffee Cups Tea Substitutes Craving Cups Of Tea

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

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