It seems a commonly received idea among men and even among women themselves that it requires nothing but a disappointment in love, the want of an object, a general disgust, or incapacity for other things, to turn a woman into a good nurse. This reminds... The Quarterly Review - Page 396edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
| 1859 - 940 pages
...either. Home-made brown bread will oftener cure it than anything else." " It seems a commonly received idea among men, and even among women themselves, that...past keeping the pigs.' " Apply the above receipt for a good nurse to make a good servant. And the receipt will be found to fail." The different subjects... | |
| 1860 - 512 pages
...education in this faculty, which has hitherto been deemed essential. ' It seems a commonly received idea among men and even among women themselves that...Apply the above receipt for making a good nurse to making a good servant. And the receipt will be found to fail. ' Yet popular novelists of recent days... | |
| Florence Nightingale - 1860 - 248 pages
...answered. Now for the caution : — what does not (3.) It seems a commonly received idea among nurse." men and even among women themselves that it requires...Apply the above receipt for making a good nurse to making a good servant. And the receipt will be found to ML Yet popular novelists of recent days have... | |
| Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen - 1861 - 418 pages
...nursing of hospitals and workhouses, the latter especially, she remarks, " It seems a commonly received idea among men, and even among women themselves, that...Apply the above receipt for making a good nurse, to making a good servant, and the receipt will be found to fail." " What cruel mistakes are sometimes... | |
| 1914 - 540 pages
...humour. We must give one specimen from her ' Notes on Nursing ' : ' " It seems a commonly received idea among men, and even among women themselves, that...it requires nothing but a disappointment in love, or an incapacity for other things, to turn a woman into a good nurse. This reminds one of the parish... | |
| 1910 - 678 pages
...of medicine, 'The commonly received idea among men, and even among women themselves,' she asserted, 'that it requires nothing but a disappointment in...for other things, to turn a woman into a good nurse, reminds one of the parish where a stupid old man was set to be a schoolmaster because he was 'past... | |
| 1904 - 900 pages
...length. Nor is she devoid of a sense of humor. "It seems a commonly received idea among men," she says, "and even among women themselves, that it requires...schoolmaster because he "was past keeping the pigs." Again, "Let no one depend on fumigation, disinfectants and the like for purifying the air. The offensive... | |
| John Milton Scudder - 1895 - 940 pages
...and even among women themseb nothing but a disappointment in 1 object, a general disgust, or incapaci turn a woman into a good nurse. This reminds one of the parish wi was set to be schoolmaster because the pigs." Apply the above receipt for mak making a good servant,... | |
| Florence Nightingale - 1902 - 174 pages
...not, my object will have been answered. Now for the caution : — (3.) It seems a commonly received idea among men and even among women themselves that...turn a woman into a good nurse. This reminds one of ffie parish where a stupid old man was set to be schoolmaster because he was " past keeping the pigs."... | |
| Sarah A. Southall Tooley - 1905 - 402 pages
...words to say on nursing as a profession, and gives a humorous little thrust at " the commonly received idea among men, and even among women themselves, that...school-master because he was ' past keeping the pigs.' " Miss Nightingale sums up the matter with some condensed wisdom on the question as to whether women... | |
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