This rule, indeed, applies to the well quite as much as to the sick. I have never known persons who exposed themselves for years to constant interruption who did not muddle away their intellects by it at last. The process with them may be accomplished... Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not - Page 50by Florence Nightingale - 1860 - 140 pagesFull view - About this book
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - England - 1860 - 642 pages
...and, usually, the deficiency of sleep. Miss Nightingale says, in her " Notes on Nursing" (p. 29) : " I have never known persons who exposed themselves...did not muddle away their intellects by it at last." Nothing can be truer than this : and no persons are more hopeless, both as to intellect and nerve,... | |
| Henrietta Wilson - 1860 - 164 pages
...your time. Did you observe Miss Nightingale's remark in her admirable Notes on Nursing? She says,—"I have never known persons who exposed themselves for...did not muddle away their intellects by it at last." So be warned in time ! You will not misunderstand me so far as to think that I mean to advise you to... | |
| Florence Nightingale - Nursing - 1861 - 280 pages
...positive injury by interrupting, by "startling a fanciful" person, as it is called. Alas ! it is no fancy. This rule, indeed, applies to the well quite as much...pain. With the sick, pain gives warning of the injury. Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him, or to give him any... | |
| Christianity - 1861 - 576 pages
...a fanciful" person, as it is called. Alas! it is no fancy.'—Ibid. p. 28. And further we find— ' This rule, indeed, applies to the well quite as much...without pain. With the sick, pain gives warning of the injury.'—Ibid. p. 29. It becomes important to know what it is that constitutes ' interruption' of... | |
| Harriet Martineau - Agriculture - 1861 - 622 pages
...and, usually, the deficiency of sleep. Miss Nightingale says in her "Notes on Nursing" (p. 2'J) : " I have never known persons who exposed themselves...did not muddle away their intellects by it at last." Nothing can be truer than this : and no persona are more hopeless, both as to intellect and nerve,... | |
| Harriet Martineau - Agriculture - 1861 - 614 pages
...relief, and, usually, the deficiency of sleep. Miss Nightingale says hi her " Notes on Nursing" (p. " I have never known persons who exposed themselves...did not muddle away their intellects by it at last." Nothing can be truer than this : and no persons are more hopeless, both as to intellect and nerve,... | |
| Henrietta Wilson - Conduct of life - 1862 - 172 pages
...your time. Did you observe Miss Nightingale's remark in her admirable Notes on Nursing? She says,—"I have never known persons who exposed themselves for...did not muddle away their intellects by it at last." So be warned in time ! You will not misunderstand me so far as to think that I mean to advise you to... | |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton - Conduct of life - 1873 - 556 pages
...Nightingale does not consider interruption baneful to sick persons only. " This rule indeed," she continues, "applies to the well quite as much as to the sick....With the sick, pain gives warning of the injury." Interruption is an evil to the reader which must be estimated very differently from ordinary business... | |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton - Culture - 1874 - 490 pages
...Nightingale does not consider interruption baneful to sick persons only. " This rule indeed," she continues, "applies to the well quite as much as to the sick....With the sick, pain gives warning of the injury." Interruption is an evil to the reader which must be estimated very differently from ordinary business... | |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton - Culture - 1875 - 494 pages
...does not consider interruption baneful to sick persons only. " This rule indeed," she continues, " applies to the well quite as much as to the sick....With the sick, pain gives warning of the injury." Interruption is an evil to the reader which must be estimated very differently from ordinary business... | |
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