Item Information
Title
Letter to William Clark: 5 October 1872, page 4
Subject
Sanitary Engineering, Clark, William (1821-1880), India
Creator
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)
Date
5 October 1872
Rights
https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
Language
English
Type
Text - scan of original letter
Identifier
https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/nightingale/
Text
just as a doctor deals
with every separate Patient
– applying the principles of his
art to the particular case.
Much controversy would
have been spared had you
explained the facts about the
Sewers of your Calcutta
system which you have
been so kind as to tell me.
In telling me you have
clearly described your case,
& you have replied
completely to Mr. Chadwick,
& to all people who hold
by a principle & not by
an application.
with every separate Patient
– applying the principles of his
art to the particular case.
Much controversy would
have been spared had you
explained the facts about the
Sewers of your Calcutta
system which you have
been so kind as to tell me.
In telling me you have
clearly described your case,
& you have replied
completely to Mr. Chadwick,
& to all people who hold
by a principle & not by
an application.