Introductory notes on lying-in institutions

by Florence Nightingale

LYING-IN INSTITUTIONS.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE

AND PARLIAMENT STREET

INTRODUCTORY NOTES
ON
LYING-IN INSTITUTIONS.
TOGETHER WITH
A PROPOSAL FOR ORGANISING AN INSTITUTION FOR TRAINING MIDWIVES AND MIDWIFERY NURSES.

BY

Florence Nightingale.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1871.

If I may dedicate, without ‘permission,’ these small ‘Notes’ to the shade of Socrates’ Mother, may I likewise, without presumption, call to my help the questioning shade of her Son, that I who write may have the spirit of questioning aright, and that those who read may learn not of me but of themselves?

And, further, has he not said: ‘The midwives are respectable women, and have a character to lose’?