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Seems to be a professional nurse.

The nurse had left her daily notes for me. The air tranquil.

—had some conversations on nurses, nursing and the care of the sick. Mr.

But best of all is the careful nursing, Doctor."

Does the nurse use the flesh brush on Walt?

"All the day I have had simply to nurse myself against this utter deadness that presses me."

The nurse came to carriage—then had Garrison come to second-story window.

Has nurses and all done for him that can be.

What's more, he had no nurse about him—nobody at all.

All it tells is, that when he was in Florence Addington had such a man—a nurse, a Warrie.

She described interestingly visit paid to W. at time Musgrove was nurse—how Musgrove interfered—tried

s nurse etc. etc.

He yet lives in his cottage, with housekeeper and nurse, in Mickle street, Camden, New Jersey, retains

>Discursively discussed nurses.

A man to nurse me, not one I must nurse. Oh! that is very esential.

Have not got on track of a nurse yet.Tuesday, October 15, 18897.15 P.M.

I gave Ed a letter to Gould about a new nurse. Hard to secure!

As to a new nurse, W., "We're all hoping it will be the right man."

I find myself very anxious on this point of the nurse.

I never felt this so much as with nurses—how some have the nurse's gift.

Even the nurse remarked the other night when Kemper sat in the parlor with us that "the way Mr.

He had nursed her husband in the hospital at Washington.

They also presented him with a nurse's chair for his use about the house.

Davis & his nurse & we could have a jolly time.

but of necessity that a nurse should be kept and of the grace it would do W.'

And he added: "I don't seem to be a hospital person: I rebel against the idea of being nursed, cared

There's no use nursing the memory of it: it's best forgotten.

it is poor O'Connor who should have the nurse, not me: poor William: he deserves it, I do not."

The talk got upon the nurse fund.

turning to me: "What he seems most to need is a skilful able-bodied man—a nurse.

Had the new nurse turned up yet? W. laughed.

it was very bad: we nursed him: I was there once, twice, often three times a day: posted the nurses,

His nurse, Wilkins, said Mr.

Talked of nurses. "After all the best nurses are women—at the last the women are always called in.

But "the ideal nurse is yet to come."

The new nurse, whose name is Musgrove, is an older man than Baker.

He is only a nurse—not a doctor. W. motioned the medicine away.

I struck out the 'volunteer hospital nurse' line.

As I was going W. said: "I'm nursing up a surprise for you." "Good or bad?"

Had slept later than usual—to 11 from 9.30 last night, nurse said.

Bucke approached W. on the subject of a nurse.

You fellows have about convinced me that I should have a nurse.

We all agreed that a nurse should be secured at once.

He also objected to having the nurse sleep there in the room with him.

There is to be a change of nurses tomorrow. Baker will go.

The same old rains and the same old sun and nursed dews, soil, it,yet in so many ways how novel and strange

depletion, energies. farm boy, then a school-teacher, then a printer,ed itor,writer, traveler, mechanic, nurse

He did the for them no nurse or doctor things could do, and he seemed to leave a benediction at every

All it tells is, that when he was in Florence Addington had such a man—a nurse, a Warrie.

Burroughs advises more energetic, even drastic, nursing—rubbing, massage, and so on.

chair she had an almost irresistible impulse to rush out of the house and pitch him, chair, man and nurse

W. received a long letter from Bucke to-daytoday talking about the change in nurses.

When I called, found the vestibule door unfastened and apparently no one about—neither nurse nor Mrs.

I had never heard him in all the months before express any desire for the presence of a nurse—even care

where the nurse might be—but this evening he said: "I do not like his staying so long and saying nothing

found—which, with great manly strength, unites sweet delicacy, soft as a woman's, gentle enough to nurse

As to a new nurse, W., "We're all hoping it will be the right man."

s health—asked him if he did not feel better than a year ago—W. only responding: "I have a good nurse

There are none too many massagers, as I call them—especially male massagers,—nor good male nurses, for

any indications he might give—try to be on hand yourself—and to make sure speak quietly to the new nurse

shall have my daily rubbing—a first-rate, vigorous, massage—by my young friend here"—he will never say nurse

The talk got upon the nurse fund.

"Harlots and sinners—discredited persons, criminals: they should be my audience: women, doctors, nurses

always fed—cannot wield knife and fork and even tires using his fingers, as I have seen him do, the nurse

>Discursively discussed nurses.

W. thought, "They seem impossible to our time—certainly to America—the true nurse must be a male: that

A man to nurse me, not one I must nurse. Oh! that is very esential.

during the War to whom justice has never been done—the telegraph boys, the cadet physicians, the nurses

it is poor O'Connor who should have the nurse, not me: poor William: he deserves it, I do not."

"I think you are well off as to doctors and nurses now—Osler, Walsh and Wilkins—it is a strong team and

reached over quietly and took my hand: "Not to speak of you, Horace, who are worth all the doctors and nurses

Gilder's request I write to ask if you would not write us a short, comprehensive paper on Hospital Nursing

Nurse said he stayed up unusually late last evening. Generally turns in about ten.

speak of a letter he had just received from a western man, now prosperous, who had as a soldier been nursed

O Connor nursed thought. Mr. Whitman through hisfirststroke of paralysis. While Mr.

Whitman s friends in Phil adelphia, as tothe need of a nurse and as to Mr.

The nurse provided for Mr.

of the pain by nursing 206 THE MAN.

WHITMAN S LAST ILLNESS. 251 friendand nurse.

Walt Fredericksburg battle, started for the camp upon the Rappahannock, nursed hisbrother through, and

also the dire events of the great war, the very saddest aspects of which he daily studied his as a nurse

Then he comes to us as lover, consoler, physician, nurse ; most tender, fatherly, those about to the

smiles; And I have watch'd the death-hours of the and seen the infant old; die; The rich, with all his nurses

definite plans at that time, or forlong afterwards ; but attention to the Brooklyn friends led to nursing

He did the things forthem which no nurse or doctor could do, and he seemed toleave a benediction at every

You wrote about Emma, her tliinkingshe might and ought to come as nurse for thesoldiers.

saw one of those prettyand good girls,who in muslin and ribbons ornament the wards, and are called "nurses

which isthe chief literaryglory of our country in the capitals of Europe — the book of the good gray nurse

I get out into the air if nurse open every day, possible ; my [the young man I had seen downstairs] wheels

Nurses, with babies and little were about the and I children, sitting logs, enticed one bright littleboy

crowd on the wharf wait ing the arrival of the ship, and with him were Horace Traubel and Whitman's nurse

She had the children to nurse and look after,and there was Gilchrist's book to see to.

own hand in my propp'd up bed, deadly weak yet, but the spark seems to glimmer yet the doctors & nurses

Nurse says W.'s bowels are open but much of the food passes through undigested.

I gave Ed a letter to Gould about a new nurse. Hard to secure!

this is essential, the crowning requisite) the physiological Leaves of Grass—the Leaves of Grass nursed

question had been to ask whether it was true that W. could not even rise without the assistance of a nurse

I told W. of a French nurse whose method of dealing with children had interested me.

Then: "I was just saying the other day that Leaves of Grass could only be thoroughly understood by nurses

If I had known earlier I would have gone on to Los Angeles myself, to nurse the lad; but this seems unnecessary

Nurse told McKay, "You find him at his best," and Dave argues, "If that was the best, what is his worst

Yet was a bit stronger, too—could help in trifling [ways] when the nurse worked about or with him.Had

W. spoke kindly of the nurses and Mary Davis. Said all were "oh so good."

That his ideal for a nurse was a man. They—Dr. McAlister and Mr. W.

—had some conversations on nurses, nursing and the care of the sick. Mr.

I never felt this so much as with nurses—how some have the nurse's gift.

W. don't think because I am a nurse you must eat when you do not wish to"—he replied, "You will find

the door there unassisted—must help myself with a chair, the table, anything—sometimes calling the nurse

Bucke suggests an additional nurse to relieve Warrie but Warrie resists.

early years: teaching, loafing, working on the newspapers: traveling: then in Washington—clerking, nursing

Whitman,I am glad you can do the nursing article. Thanks for the Father Taylor.