I never claimed to be a nurse. There are hundreds of women who could nurse as well as I, if not better, than I could.
Clara Barton.
Time is the great physician. Disraeli.
Physicians mend or end us. Lord Byron.
Send for a physician;—but the sick man answered, “It is no matter for, if I die, I’ll die at leisure.” Lord Bacon.
For the woman has a friend
Who will keep her to the end. Ironquill.
NURSING A FINE ART—OVER THE WASHTUB
Was Clara Barton a nurse? Yes, and Florence Nightingale said that nursing is a fine art; and to succeed requires greater devotion than that in the art of painting or sculpture, for nursing has to do with “the living body, the temple of God’s spirit.” It’s probably the finest of the fine arts. Clara Barton did not assume the rôle of an art-nurse; she said others could surpass her in this art.
Miss Barton in her passion for service claimed to be only a “working-woman.” Work did not undignify her; instead, she seemed to dignify work—she surely made nursing popular. Work was a part of the best religion she ever had. With her