The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.