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No Man, Not Even A Doctor, Ever Gives Any Other Definition Of What A Nurse Should Be Than This-'devoted And Obedient.' This Definition Would Do Just As Well For A Porter. It Might Even Do For A Horse. It Would Not Do For A Policeman.

I Cannot Remember The Time When I Have Not Longed For Death. ... For Years And Years I Used To Watch For Death As No Sick Man Ever Watched For The Morning.

A Want Of The Habit Of Observing And An Inveterate Habit Of Taking Averages Are Each Of Them Often Equally Misleading.

The Very Elements Of What Constitutes Good Nursing Are As Little Understood For The Well As For The Sick. The Same Laws Of Health, Or Of Nursing, For They Are In Reality The Same, Obtain Among The Well As Among The Sick.

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.