It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.