Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRCwas a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 May 1820
CityFlorence, Italy
peace fighting men
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
taken nursing years
All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.
nursing years law
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.
nursing air nurse
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
beauty healing underestimate
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
nursing should-have sick
Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.
nursing tea get-better
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
world doe moral
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
nursing light sick
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
nursing light air
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.
suffering doctrine god-love
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
party mean nursing
The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
night praying drink
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
next female christ
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.