Florence Nightingale Quotes About Cleanliness

Quotes about: Cleanliness

• 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.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Light, Air

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Nursing, Light

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.31, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

• The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

  Florence Nightingale

  Lying, Science, Hygiene

  Letter to Medical Officer of Health, November (1891)

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