Florence Nightingale Quote

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited — though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air — of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.


Notes on Nursing (1860)


Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be...

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be...

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be...

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be...