Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V MISS NIGHTINGALE'S WRITINGS GREAT as Miss Nightingale was as a nurse, her nursing reflected only a part of her genius. She was, perhaps, even greater as a teacher, and without a doubt greatest as a sanitarian. Though it was by her nursing that she seized and held the hearts and imaginations of men--so that those who know nothing further of her know that she was the heroine of the Crimea and the reformer of nursing, --it is the intellectual quality of her deep insight into problems of health that keeps her work and will always keep it fresh and vivid. It is not possible to study her writings without being strongly stirred by her ardent realisation of all that makes for health. She was an enthusiast for health and happiness. Said Dr. Blackwell, "To her chiefly I owe the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine, its foundation and its crown." In considering her practical and technical knowledge, so extensive, so minute, so exact, and above all so intelligent is it found to be that it is perhaps not too much to call her the foremost sanitarian of her age, as uniting in a rare measure technical knowledge with organising capacity. Practical hygiene underlay all her teachings throughout her long life, beginning with her individual visits in the cottages near her country home. A very remarkable example of the originality of this teaching is her Notes on Nursing; What It Is, and What It Is Not. In this unrivalled monograph she does not concern herself with so much as a glance at the carrying out of "orders " in the application of treatment, nor describe a single method of technical procedure, nor hint at the relation of the nurse to the patient, the physician, the family, nor describe the symptoms of a single...
