The incentive to help and heal another in distress is spontaneous, generally the result of sympathetic impulse and kindness—a thing of the feelings and consequently of sudden growth.
Clara Barton.
“The other ladies could not endure the climate at Morris Island,” and, as I knew somebody must take care of the soldiers, I went.
Clara Barton.
The idea of humanity in distress is not entirely modern;
Alexander was accompanied in his march by the most famous physicians of the age. Clara Barton.
Homer and Plato were so struck with Egyptian Science and skill that they declared the Egyptians were all doctors.
Clara Barton.
It is probable that the first practitioners in common life were women. Clara Barton.
A wise physician, skilled, our wounds to heal