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.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

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

I was very limited as a women. Getting the men in the military to see that the medical facilities were unhealthy was very difficult, along with many other things such as getting a good education and also finding a good career.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

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.