It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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