Florence Nightingale Quotes


When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.


Citations

Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not. Harrison, 1860, p. 44.

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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
  • Born: May 12, 1820
  • Died: August 13, 1910
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Activist

Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC, DStJ was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.