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“I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.”

Quote by Florence Nightingale

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Florence Nightingale

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. more

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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 first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.”

Firsts Science Lying Water Possibility Cleanliness Hygiene

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“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 great object to employ the first or overcome the last.”

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“Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.”

World Doe Moral Activity Sketchy

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Source: The cause

“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

“I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.”

Deserve Worthy Nurse

Book:Florence Nightingale to her Nurses: A Selection from Miss Nightingale's Addresses to Probationers and Nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital

Source: Florence Nightingale to her Nurses: A Selection from Miss Nightingale's Addresses to Probationers and Nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital

“There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions”

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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.”

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“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

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“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.”

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

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