Martial Marcus Valerius Martialis
c. AD 86 · Roman Empire
Diaulus was lately a doctor; now he is an undertaker. What he does as an undertaker, he did as a doctor too.
Nuper erat medicus, nunc est vispillo Diaulus:
quod vispillo facit, fecerat et medicus.Epigrams 1.47
In the same thread
Florence Nightingale
1859 · London, England
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. Remember, he is face to face with his enemy all the time, internally wrestling with him, having long imaginary conversations with him.
Notes on Nursing
Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規
May 5, 1902 · Meiji Japan
A sickbed six feet long: this is my world. And even this six-foot sickbed is too wide for me.
病床六尺、これが我世界である。しかもこの六尺の病床が余には広過ぎるのである。A Six-Foot Sickbed (Byosho rokushaku), the first entry
Ardi-Nana Ardi-Nanâ
7th century BC · Nineveh, Assyria
Concerning the patient who had blood run from his nose, the messenger has told me, saying, “Yesterday, at evening, much blood ran.” Those dressings are not with knowledge. They have been placed upon the breathing passages of the nose and oppress the breathing and come off, because of the bleeding. Let them be placed within the nostrils, they will preserve the breath and the blood will be held back.A letter to the king · in place of the original: the English translation by C. H. W. Johns (1904)
Florence Nightingale
1859 · London, England
A small pet animal is often an excellent companion for the sick, for long chronic cases especially. A pet bird in a cage is sometimes the only pleasure of an invalid confined for years to the same room.
Notes on Nursing
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