Florence Nightingale and the libraries of the British Army. Florence Nightingale and the nursing legacy.

But I know it and often think about it (31 December 1879).īaly, M.E.

The world does not know all this or think about it. There was a great deal of romantic feeling about you 23 years ago when you returned home from the Crimea and now you work on in silence, and nobody knows how many lives are saved by your nurses in hospitals how many thousand soldiers are now alive owing to your forethought and diligence how many natives of India in this generation and in generations to come have been preserved from famine and oppression and the load of debt by the energy of a sick lady who can scarcely rise from her bed. A letter written to her by Benjamin Jowett should stand as her epitaph: It would seem fair to judge Florence Nightingale's contribution to education by the practical effect which her reforms had. Advertisements on pale yellow endpapers include Burke's Peerage for 1860.Florence Nightingale once quoted from an address on education delivered at the Universities of St Andrew's and Glasgow, which perfectly reflected her own standpoint: ‘ education is to teach men not to know, but to do’ (Nightingale, 1873, p. Ventilation and warming - Health of houses - Petty management - Noise - Variety - Taking food - What food? - Bed and bedding - Light - Cleanliness of rooms and walls - Personal cleanliness - Chattering hopes and advices - Observation of the sick - Conclusion - Appendixīiomed's copy: 'The right of Translation is reserved.'-Title page. Publisher's advertisements on lining papersīinding: Publisher's brown cloth over cards, stamped in blind and goldĮlmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection It is recognized as the knowledge one ought to have-distinct from medical knowledge, which only a profession can have.'-Preface Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others.

'The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse.

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