The Amount Of Relief And Comfort Experienced

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.

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.

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.

Let People Who Have To Observe Sickness And Death Look Back And Try To Register In Their Observation The Appearances Which Have Preceded Relapse, Attack Or Death, And Not Assert That There Were None, Or That There Were Not The Right Ones. A Want Of The Habit Of Observing Conditions And An Inveterate Habit Of Taking Averages Are Each Of Them Often Equally Misleading.

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.