I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.