I Use The Word Nursing For Want

The Symptoms Or The Sufferings Generally Considered To Be Inevitable And Incident To The Disease Are Very Often Not Symptoms Of The Disease At All, But Of Something Quite Different-of The Want Of Fresh Air, Or Of Light, Or Of Warmth, Or Of Quiet, Or Of Cleanliness, Or Of Punctuality And Care In The Administration Of Diet, Of Each Or Of All Of These.

I Attribute My Success To This - I Never Gave Or Took Any Excuse.

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.

Diseases, As All Experience Shows, Are Adjectives, Not Noun Substantives.

I Stand At The Altar Of Murdered Men, And, While I Live, I Fight Their Cause.