...observer of the sick will agree in this, that thousands of patients are annually starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which...the sick themselves, who will not make the effort to take [do] what is perfectly possible to them. For instance, to most [the large majority of] very weak...

...observer of the sick will agree in this that thousands of patients are annually starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food.” 1 According to Medicare statistics, in the US there are 16,995 total nursing facilities with 1,813,665...

...will agree in this that thousands of patients are annually starved in the midst of plenty, from the want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food. . . . How often have we known a patient eat nothing at all in the day, because one meal was left untasted.......

...if prescribed for the opposite malady. 2 “Thousands of patients are annually starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food,” observed Florence Nightingale after her Crimean War experiences. 3 Her book was republished both in...

...always be fresh and natural. 2427 'Patients,' says Miss Nightingale, 'are sometimes starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food. A spoonful of beef-tea, or arrowroot and wine, or some other light nourishing diet, should be given...

...always be fresh and natural. "Patients," says Miss Nightingale, "are sometimes starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for Sick-Booms. Diet suitable for patients will depend, in some degree, on their natural likes and dislikes,...