If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
— Florence Nightingale Modern

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Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not

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1859

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1243/1243-h/1243-h.htm

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