Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-10
VALUE OF GOOD NURSING.
D0vv Dependent the Doctors Are Upon It-Attributes a NrIrHe Should
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 we dwell upon the great advances med icine and surgery have made in the last few decades, We often lay too much stress upon cur "AcieEce' and upon the remarkable laborS of our colleagues, and too little uponNSome less obtru4ive roIaborers who are never heard in public urging their claims for personal recOg- milton and priority, and yet without whose efficient collaboration the wheels of progress would have been sadly re tarded, if not stopped altogether, says writer in the Philadelphia Medical Journal.
 Chief of these helpers are the nurses. They save the lives of many doctors every day by assuming responsibilities unknown to their predecessors, and so robbing the work of its haraSsins wear and tear. And who can calculate how many patients lives are saved by the alert trainsd mind, ready to recognize danger in it's uttsrmost outposts, and so able to summon timely aid? And yet for this very reason, because we are so dependent upon these noble helpers in our work, we should utter q warning and enter a plea for still higher and nobler ideals in their work.
 The trouble with the rank and file Of our nurses is that theI are spoiled in their training, for the one great dom inant impulse of the true nurse, old fashioned as well as new and trained, should bs the tender love of the sick and suffering, 2 sense of having a mis- sion in the world only rightly fulfilled when with warm hsart and skilled hands lifting some little bit of the worlds weight of woe.
 We have often thought that each training school should have a chair on the humanities, continually emphaaiz- ing to the nurse the emotional, hu- mane and religious side of her calling. So true Is this that we verify believe that without the dominant impulse no woman has right to enter the sick room, any more than an unconverted man has right to enterthe pulpit, CT blind man to be a painter. All the scientific superStructure which can be piled on cannot make up for this awful deficiency in their foundation.
 And yet chair a formal lectureship, would never make up the lack of it, for one cannot have a professor to inspire affection any more than one can buy affection in the market. It rests after all in the head of the school; she is the woman by force of daily example, by Precept and practice, to see that this tenderness is in the women sha selects for the course, and to see that no ines of training are followed which will tend to repress this essential element.
 1t IS the testimony of 8 great surgeon that we see too much science (so- called) and too little regard for the Divine calling in almost all our train ing schools. "When I come to seek for nurses in my private practice, I find the woman with a true calling is. rare indeed" Our training schools, some of them, are arctic in their temperature and their influence, and the influence of chief nurses seems too frequently to look to the murder of girls natural affection and tenderness. But the fault not seldom lies at our own pro- fession's door. All praise, then, is due to the model hospital in Waltham, Mass, where humanity is made the chief issue, where the woman first gains her training among the poor in pravate practice and has every induce ment to develop the affection in a sym pathetic personal relationA lip thus es- tablished before entering the hospital mill.
 Let us have science and let us have humanity, but let us not have science without humanity-i. e., the love and devotion which filled Florence Nightin- gales heart and without which there can be no true and successful nurse.