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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.

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.

Let People Who Have To Observe Sickness And Death Look Back And Try To Register In Their Observation The Appearances Which Have Preceded Relapse, Attack Or Death, And Not Assert That There Were None, Or That There Were Not The Right Ones. A Want Of The Habit Of Observing Conditions And An Inveterate Habit Of Taking Averages Are Each Of Them Often Equally Misleading.

Passion, Intellect, Moral Activity - These Three Have Never Been Satisfied In A Woman. In This Cold And Oppressive Conventional Atmosphere, They Cannot Be Satisfied. To Say More On This Subject Would Be To Enter Into The Whole History Of Society, Of The Present State Of Civilisation.

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.