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Title: The life of Florence Nightingale
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Tooley, Sarah A. Southall
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 Nurses
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company London : S. H. Bousfield & Co., ltd., 12, Portugal Street
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e found in private life.Two severe illnesses among members of her familyhad developed her nursing faculty, and when theyno longer required her attention, she turned to asystematic study of nursing. To-day it seems almost impossible to realisehow novel was the idea of a woman of birth andeducation becoming a nurse. Miss Nightingale wasa pioneer of the pioneers. She herself had notthen any clear course before her for the future,but she realised the important point that she couldnot hope to accomplish anything without training.The faculty was necessary and the desire to behelpful to the sick and suffering, but a trainedknowledge was the important thing. In a letterwhich Miss Nightingale wrote in after years toyoung women on the subject of Work and Duty she remarked : I would say to all young ladieswho are called to any particular vocation, qualifyyourselves for it as a man does for his work. Dontthink you can undertake it otherwise. Submityourselves to the rules of business as men do, by
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MISS NIGHTINGALE.(From a Drawing.) (To face p. 48. THE SQUIRES DAUGHTER 49 which alone you can make Gods business succeed ;for He has never said that he will give His successand his blessing to sketchy and unfinished work.And on another occasion she wrote : Three-fourthsof the whole mischief in womens lives arises fromtheir excepting themselves from the rules of trainingconsidered needful for men. This was the spirit in which Miss Nightingaleentered upon her chosen work, for she was thelast person to ^preach and not practise. Theadvice which she gave to other women, when shehad herself risen to the head of her profession, hadbeen the guiding influence of her own probation. The beneficent work which distinguished her asthe squires daughter had given her useful ex-perience, and had opened her eyes to the need oftrained nurses for the sick poor. What is nowcalled district nursing at this period exercised themind of Florence Nightingale, and her attentionto military nursing was called for

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