Nature Alone Cures. ... What Nursing Has

If I Could Give You Information Of My Life It Would Be To Show How A Woman Of Very Ordinary Ability Has Been Led By God In Strange And Unaccustomed Paths To Do In His Service What He Has Done In Her. And If I Could Tell You All, You Would See How God Has Done All, And I Nothing. I Have Worked Hard, Very Hard, That Is All; And I Have Never Refused God Anything.

The Account He Gives Of Nurses Beats Everything That Even I Know Of. This Young Prophet Says That They Are All Drunkards, Without Exception, Sisters And All, And That There Are But Two Whom The Surgeon Can Trust To Give The Patients Their Medicines.

I Attribute My Success To This - I Never Gave Or Took Any Excuse.

I Think One's Feelings Waste Themselves In Words; They Ought All To Be Distilled Into Actions Which Bring Results.

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.