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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.

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.

Live Life When You Have It. Life Is A Splendid Gift-there Is Nothing Small About It.

Women Never Have A Half-hour In All Their Lives (excepting Before Or After Anybody Is Up In The House) That They Can Call Their Own, Without Fear Of Offending Or Of Hurting Someone. Why Do People Sit Up So Late, Or, More Rarely, Get Up So Early? Not Because The Day Is Not Long Enough, But Because They Have 'no Time In The Day To Themselves.' 1852

The Very First Requirement In A Hospital Is That It Should Do The Sick No Harm.