Henry Needler –
English musician
Who formed the curious texture of the eye
And cloath’d it with the various tunicles,
And texture exquisite; with chrystal juice
Supply’d it, to transmit the rays of light?
A Poem to Prove the Certainty of a God
Horatio, Lord Nelson –
English admiral and victor of Trafalgar
I have only one eye – I have a right to be blind
sometimes.
Quoted in Robert Southey’s Life of NelsonCh. , describing
Nelson putting the telescope up to his blind eye at
Copenhagen.
John Henry, Cardinal Newman
–
British ecclesiastic and philosopher
It is a matter of primary importance in the
cultivation of those sciences that the investigator
should be free, independent, unshackled in his
movements.
Christianity and Scientific Investigation
To discover and to teach are distinct functions;
they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly
found united in the same person.
On the Scope and Nature of University EducationPreface
Frank Nicholson –
US film actor
I’d prefer to have a full bottle in front of me than
a full frontal lobotomy.
Attributed
Sir Harold Nicholson –
English writer
One of the minor pleasures in life is to be slightly ill.
Observer()
Delbert H. Nickson –
The patient suffered from chronic remunerative
appendicitis.
Attributed
Friedrich Nietzsche –
German philosopher and poet
Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in
groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule.
Beyond Good and EvilCh.
There is a justice according to which we may
deprive a man of life, but none that permits us to
deprive him of death: that is merely cruelty.
Human, All Too HumanCh. II, Sect. (transl. Alexander
Harvey)
The most dangerous physicians are those who can
act in perfect mimicry of the born physicians.
Human, All Too HumanPt II
The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it
is not from the strongest that harm comes to the
strong, but from the weakest.
Genealogy of MoralsEssay Idleness is the parent of all psychology.
The Twilight of the IdolsThe sick man is a parasite of society. In certain
cases it is indecent to go on living.
The Twilight of the IdolsTwo great European narcotics, alcohol and
Christianity
The Twilight of the IdolsOne should die proudly when it is no longer
possible to live proudly.
The Twilight of the IdolsThe thought of suicide is a great consolation: with
the help of it one has got through many a
bad night.
AttributedFlorence Nightingale –
British nurse pioneerIt may seem a strange principle to enunciate as
the very first requirement in a Hospital that it
should do the sick no harm.
Notes on HospitalsPrefaceNever be afraid of open windows. People do not
catch cold in bed. This is a popular fallacy.
Notes on NursingThe nurse should never neglect to attend to the
patient’s bodily hygiene on the pretext that such
measures do little good and are not urgent.
Notes on NursingMy life now is as unlike my Hospital life when
I was concerned with the souls and bodies of men
as reading a cookery book is unlike a good dinner.
Letter to Revd Mother Bermondsey ()The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in
water supply.
Letter to Medical Officer of Health, November ()The care and government of the sickpoor is a
thing totally different from the government of
paupers.
Quoted in C. Woodham-Smith’s Florence Nightingalep. .
Reprint Society ()It makes me mad to hear people talk about
unemployed women...we can’t find the women.
They won’t come.
Quoted in C. Woodham-Smith’s Florence Nightingalep. .
Reprint Society ()Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel
–
German-born Viennese professor of medicine
Only a good man can be a great physician.
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