[298] Letter to Madame Mohl, Dec. 13, 1861.
[299] Letter to Harriet Martineau, Sept. 24, 1861.
[300] Dublin (Bibliography A., No. 28), p. 8.
[301] Herbert (Bibliography A., No. 29), p. 3.
[PART IV]
HOSPITALS AND NURSING
(1858–1861)
The everyday management of a large ward, let alone of a hospital, the knowing what are the laws of life and death for men, and what the laws of health for wards (and wards are healthy or unhealthy mainly according to the knowledge or ignorance of the nurse), are not these matters of sufficient importance and difficulty to require learning by experience and careful inquiry, just as much as any other art?—Florence Nightingale: Notes on Nursing.