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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

“A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.”

Light Break Duty Habit Intellect Conventional Bad Habits Break Through Frivolity

Book:Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

Source: Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

“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

“It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.”

Want Needs Light Science Hurt Dark Rooms Results Air Health Direct Sick Patient Sunlight Fresh Air Unqualified Dark Room

Book:Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“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

“I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.”

Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.”

Light Desire Return Sick Craving Nursing Inspirational Nurse

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

“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