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Title: The life of Florence Nightingale
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Tooley, Sarah A. Southall
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 Nurses
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company London : S. H. Bousfield & Co., ltd., 12, Portugal Street
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ed and feebly re-enact some scene of long ago,exactly as if walking in sleep. The actress playedher part so well because she had actually observedlife. *The very alphabet of a nurse, says MissNightingale, ** is to observe so well that she isable to interpret every change which comes overa patients countenance, without causing him theexertion of saying what he feels. ... A patientis not merely a piece of furniture, to be kept cleanand arranged against the wall, and saved frominjury or breakage—though to judge from whatmany a nurse does and does not do, you wouldsay he was. Then comes a caution that all sickpeople dislike being watched, and the nurse mustobserve without appearing to do so. Miss Nightin-gale relates that the best observer she ever knewwas a distinguished doctor for lunacy. * He leansback in his chair, with half-shut eyes, she relates,and, meanwhile, he sees everything, observeseverything, and you feel he knows you better thanmany who have lived with you twenty years. I
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THE LATE LADY VERNEY.(From a painting at Claydon.) \lo face p. 28 WISDOM FROM THE QUEEN OF NURSES 289 believe it is this singular capacity of observation andof understanding what observed appearances implywhich gives him his singular influence over lunatics. In a concluding chapter, Miss Nightingale refers j to the dangers of reckless physicking by amateur ^yfemales, and tells of the lady who, having procureda prescription for a blue pill which suited her duringone indisposition, proceeded to dose not only herselfbut her family too, *for all complaints upon alloccasions. Then there are the women who haveno ideas beyond calomel and aperients, and theLady Bountifuls who dose their poorer neighbourswith a favourite prescription when it would bedoing more good if they persuaded the peopleto remove the dung-hill from before the door,to put in a window which opens, or an Arnottsventilator, or to cleanse and lime-wash theircottages. She has some last words to say on nursing asa profession, a

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