Identifier: historyofnursing041912nutt (find matches)
Title: A history of nursing; the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nutting, M. Adelaide (Mary Adelaide), 1858-1948 Dock, Lavinia L., 1858-1956
Subjects: Nursing -- History
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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d so in GreatBritain. Theoretically speaking, this standard is theonly one compatible with courtesy; but reformers cannotalways wear velvet gloves. Much must be wrestledwith, much uprooted, only we should always aim atdoing silently. And consequently it is not an easymatter to write anything that is really true all round.Another saying of Miss Nightingales often comes backto me. A year later, when I was going to Naples, leavingour first Roman pupils to the nuns at S. Giovanni, shewrote to me: I am sure you will remember it is onlypersonal work that can do things. Stand your groundand kiss your enemys nose is one of the secrets of life.... A large Tom cat of mine came into the room andran at my two little kittens. The larger and handsomerkitten ran away. The smaller stood her ground till the 1 Miss Bryant, a young English woman, had been trained inBordeaux at the Protestant Hospital and did much to aid theItalian movement. She also gave Dr. Hamilton an endowmentfor her training school.
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Dorothy Snell Superintendent of Nurses, Queen Helens Training School in Rome Italy 113 big Tom cat came quite close, and then she kissed hisnose and made peace. Now take up your ground, mydear Miss Turton, and stick to it. . . . Go on persever-ingly and prosper. For all of us these are words ofreally inspired wisdom. If even half of us really succeedin living them, success will be a certainty, nay, since ourleader does live them, even one-third of us, by followingher, will ensure victory. Hold your ground, but kissyour enemys nose. A smiling insistence of attitude,in other words, whenever certain that the point to begained is undisputably right. The first point thus gained, I think, was—screens.In our hospitals here such luxuries are obtainableonly (and not always) for the dying. But the first pavil-ion now possesses scarlet twill screens, a vivid note in thecolourless wards, and one which, with the really charminggreen and white frocks of the probationers makes up thered, white, an

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