People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.

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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.

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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

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

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

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Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

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