Item Information
Title
Letter to Nursing Students, page 10
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
It is true they gave it
nothing but milk.
Milk is ‘nothing’. Milk
the most nourishing of
all things. Sick men
have recovered & lived
upon milk.
nothing but milk.
Milk is ‘nothing’. Milk
the most nourishing of
all things. Sick men
have recovered & lived
upon milk.
“My soul doth magnify
the Lord & my Spirit
hath rejoiced in God
my Saviour.”
The 19th Century (there was
a tradition) was to be the
century of Woman. How
true that legendary