There Is No Part Of My Life,

[on Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He Was A Most Disagreeable Companion To My Fancy ... His Conversation Was A Procession Of One.

It May Seem A Strange Principle To Enunciate As The Very First Requirement In A Hospital That It Should Do The Sick No Harm. It Is Quite Necessary Nevertheless To Lay Down Such A Principle.

We Know Nothing Of The Principle Of Health, The Positive Of Which Pathology Is The Negative, Except From Observation And Experience. Nothing But Observation And Experience Will Teach Us The Ways To Maintain Or To Bring Back The State Of Health. It Is Often Thought That Medicine Is The Curative Process. It Is No Such Thing; Medicine Is The Surgery Of Functions As Surgery Proper Is That Of Limbs And Organs.

Hospitals Are Only An Intermediate Stage Of Civilization, Never Intended ... To Take In The Whole Sick Population. May We Hope That The Day Will Come ... When Every Poor Sick Person Will Have The Opportunity Of A Share In A District Sick-nurse At Home.

For It May Safely Be Said, Not That The Habit Of Ready And Correct Observation Will By Itself Make Us Useful Nurses, But That Without It We Shall Be Useless With All Our Devotion.