Note 26 — VIII. BED AND BEDDING.
Reading edition · Edition 2
Nurses often do not think the sick room any business of theirs, but only the sick.
I once told a "very good nurse" that the way in which her patient's room was kept was quite enough to account for his sleeplessness; and she answered quite good-humouredly she was not at all surprised at it—as if the state of the room were, like the state of the weather, entirely out of her power. Now in what sense was this woman to be called a "nurse?"