Item Information
Title
Letter to Nursing Students, page 6
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
“you must spend the
“next 6 months in your
“room or you must garden
“everyday.” [They had a
wretched little garden at
the end of a street.]
“You must dig -get
“your feet wet ever day.”
She chose the latter –
became the hardiest of
women & lived to be old.
The change in the
treatment of Pneumonia
-disease of the lungs-
is complete. I myself
“next 6 months in your
“room or you must garden
“everyday.” [They had a
wretched little garden at
the end of a street.]
“You must dig -get
“your feet wet ever day.”
She chose the latter –
became the hardiest of
women & lived to be old.
The change in the
treatment of Pneumonia
-disease of the lungs-
is complete. I myself