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Little As We Know About The Way In Which We Are Affected By Form, By Color, And Light, We Do Know This, That They Have An Actual Physical Effect.

Nursing Is An Art: And If It Is To Be Made An Art, It Requires An Exclusive Devotion As Hard A Preparation As Any Painter's Or Sculptor's Work.

We Know Nothing Of The Principle Of Health, The Positive Of Which Pathology Is The Negative, Except From Observation And Experience. Nothing But Observation And Experience Will Teach Us The Ways To Maintain Or To Bring Back The State Of Health. It Is Often Thought That Medicine Is The Curative Process. It Is No Such Thing; Medicine Is The Surgery Of Functions As Surgery Proper Is That Of Limbs And Organs.

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The Symptoms Or The Sufferings Generally Considered To Be Inevitable And Incident To The Disease Are Very Often Not Symptoms Of The Disease At All, But Of Something Quite Different-of The Want Of Fresh Air, Or Of Light, Or Of Warmth, Or Of Quiet, Or Of Cleanliness, Or Of Punctuality And Care In The Administration Of Diet, Of Each Or Of All Of These.