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Letter to Nursing Students, page 8

Letter to Nursing Students, page 8

Item Information

Title

Letter to Nursing Students, page 8

Subject

nursing, history of nursing

Creator

Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)

Date

28 May 1900

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

Nursing is become a
profession. Trained
Nursing no longer an
object but a fact.
But, oh, if home Nursing
could become an everyday
fact here in this big city
of London, the biggest in
the world, in an island
the smallest inhabited
island in the world.
But here in London
in feeding -a most
important branch of it
-if you ask a
mother who has perhaps
brought you a sick