Notes on nursing
Subtitle: what it is, and what it is not. By Florence Nightingale.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781425511371
Subjects: American history; Nursing; Medical; History - U.S.; USA; Nursing - General; United States - General; History / United States / General; History : United States - General; Medical / Nursing / General
First sentence: SHALL we begin by taking it as a general principle- that all disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed, the termination of the disease being then, while the antecedent process was going on, determined?