I Use The Word Nursing For Want

Little As We Know About The Way In Which We Are Affected By Form, By Color, And Light, We Do Know This, That They Have An Actual Physical Effect.

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.

Religious Men Are And Must Be Heretics Now- For We Must Not Pray, Except In A "form" Of Words, Made Beforehand- Or Think Of God But With A Prearranged Idea.

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.

The Great Reformers Of The World Turn Into The Great Misanthropists, If Circumstances Or Organization Do Not Permit Them To Act.