Item Information
Title
Letter to Nursing Students, page 9
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
3
child to “look at”: “What
have you given it to eat?”
She answers triumphantly,
“O, it has the same as we
have”(!). Yes, often including
the gin. And a city
where milk, & good milk,
is now easier to get
than in the country.
For all farmers send their milk to London
or the great cities.
A sick child has been
sent to Hospital (and
recovered). You ask what
it had: ‘O, they gave it
‘nothing- nothing-‘
child to “look at”: “What
have you given it to eat?”
She answers triumphantly,
“O, it has the same as we
have”(!). Yes, often including
the gin. And a city
where milk, & good milk,
is now easier to get
than in the country.
For all farmers send their milk to London
or the great cities.
A sick child has been
sent to Hospital (and
recovered). You ask what
it had: ‘O, they gave it
‘nothing- nothing-‘