... People Have Founded Vast Schemes Upon

For The Sick It Is Important To Have The Best.

I Use The Word Nursing For Want Of A Better.

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.

Nature Alone Cures. ... What Nursing Has To Do ... Is To Put The Patient In The Best Condition For Nature To Act Upon Him.

Nursing Is An Art: And If It Is To Be Made An Art, It Requires An Exclusive Devotion As Hard A Preparation As Any Painter's Or Sculptor's Work.