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Other notebooks contain notes Whitman made while working as a nurse in Civil War hospitals in Washington
Spring, with your crown of roses budding news, Thought-nursing and most melancholy fall, Summer, with
surgery-schools of France, and addicted to the worst practices of vivisection, who roughly informs the hospital nurse
residence; or Leoline, in "Aylmer's Field," committing suicide on the news of Edith's death; or the nurse
—have been out in my wheel chair for a 40 minute open air jaunt (propell'd by WF. my sailor boy nurse
If Niebuhr, with all his extravagant admiration of the wolf-nursed race, felt himself bound thus to speak
. — silent curious babes, little accustomed to crying or to any soft and tender nursing.— Transcribed
.— For the city or state to become the general guardian or overseer and dry nurse of a man, and point
1864poetryprose1 leafhandwritten; This is a manuscript with poem notes relating to Whitman's experience as a nurse
The notes on female nurses during the war were used in Female Nurses for Soldiers, first published under
the heading, A Few Words about Female Nurses for Soldiers, in The Soldiers, New-York Times (6 March