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Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
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He became a bookseller, worked as a nurse's assistant, then studied medicine in Leipzig, where he specialized

From the spring of 1863 onward, this nursing in the field, and in the hospitals at Washington, was his

At the end of the war, it is said, he must have nursed with his own hands more than 100,000 sick and

In the 60s, just after the had appeared, he spent the Civil War on the battlefield and worked as a nurse

Walt came to the field hospital and took part in the war as nurse or actually more as comforter and,

Whitman in Russia

  • Creator(s): Stephen Stepanchev
Text:

This spark of the creatively progressive was one that he fanned and nursed; and if his system the result

Whitman in Brazil

  • Creator(s): Maria Clara Bonetti Paro
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America] most nearly recognizes its image is good gray Whitman in his open-collared shirt, in his white nurse's

conscious of his basic virtues not only through the eyes of a poet but also through the clinical eyes of a nurse

Whitman was a rough-hewn giant, but it seems that as a nurse to the sick who were closest to death, he

Which “Pathy” Will You Have?

  • Date: 19 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

common simples of domestic practice; and the third class he left to the common-sense management of the nurses

Washington in the Hot Season

  • Date: 16 August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The principal singer was a young lady nurse of one of the wards, accompanying on a melodeon, and joined

by the lady nurses of other wards.

standing up a little behind them were some ten or fifteen of the convalescent soldiers, young men, nurses

Washington

  • Date: 12 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

amid strangers, passing away untended there, (for the crowd of the badly hurt was great, and much for nurse

Walt Whitman: Prólogo para la sexta edición

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

El Memorándum acerca de “Las Escuelas de Nurses” en Londres (1908).

Walt Whitman: Preface to the Sixth Edition

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

The memorandum on "The Schools for Nurses" in London (1908).

To allow Hispanic communities to be invaded like this, nursed as they are "on the difficult facility

Utility of Perfumes

  • Date: 10 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There are cases, however, where "the doctor" and "the nurse" positively prohibit this fresh air; for

Unhealthy Children in New York and Brooklyn

  • Date: 22 May 22 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

stand a great deal, without damage—including panegoric, close muffling of the face, candies, over-nursing

To One Shortly to Die

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

To One Shortly to Die.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

To One Shortly to Die.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

To One Shortly to Die

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

head close, and half- envelop half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

confidence and love between us, welded by sickness, pain of wounds, and little daily, nightly offices of nursing

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

  • Date: 7 March 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hospitals that as long as there is any chance for a man, no matter how bad he may be, the surgeon and nurses

As you advance through the dusk of early candle-light a nurse will step forth on tip-toe, and silently

If it is a case where stimulus is any relief, the nurse gives milk-punch or brandy, or whatever is wanted

." a general ice-cream treat, purchasing a large quantity, and, under convoy of the doctor or head nurse

Swill Milk

  • Date: 14 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

counties is supplied by the New York venders; and I doubt if a physician would any sooner recommend a nurse

Song of the Exposition.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Song of the Exposition.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Song for All Seas, All Ships.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

Song for All Seas, All Ships.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

Some Fact-Romances

  • Date: December 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

She had employment from a number of families, who hired her at intervals to cook, nurse, and wash for

The Soldiers

  • Date: 6 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

B ILLINGS , Nurse Billings was Rose M.

Billing (no "s"), who served as a nurse from 1861 through the end of 1864.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT FEMALE NURSES FOR SOLDIERS.

W RIGHT , of Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, is one of those good nurses.

There are plenty of excellent clean old black women that would make tip-top nurses.

Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: July and August 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

And now, Philip, thanking the indulgence of God, which had vouchsafed him this happiness, was the nurse

The Reformed

  • Date: November 17, 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sickness of our good little sister; and each time, it proves to be nothing worse than some whim of the nurse

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

Poems by Walt Whitman [1868]

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

attached him inseparably though not rancorously to the good cause of the North, he undertook the nursing

From the spring of 1863, this nursing, both in the field and more especially in hospital at Washington

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

argue—I bend my head close, and half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers

  • Date: 11 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I always confer with the doctor, or find out from the nurse or ward-master, about a new case.

Each has its Ward Surgeon and corps of nurses.

Cleanliness, proper nursing, watching &c., are more deficient than in any hospital I know.

WOMEN NURSES. Middle-aged women and mothers of families are best.

am compelled to say young ladies, however refined, educated and benevolent, do not succeed as army nurses

Our Old Feuillage.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

Our Old Feuillage.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

And now, Philip, thanking the indulgence of God, which had vouchsafed him this happiness, was the nurse

Notices of New Books

  • Date: 16 November 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sleeps the soft south nursing its delicate breath To fan the first buds of the early Spring: The Summer

[New York Atlas, 26 December 1858]

  • Date: 26 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Nature's medicines are simple food, nursing, air, rest, cheerful encouragement, and the like.

[New York Atlas, 19 September 1858]

  • Date: 19 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

grow where they first sprouted out of the ground, intended untended by the gardener, left to the nursing

Memoranda During the War

  • Date: 1875–1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The woman nurse in this Ward I like very much. (Mrs.

by the lady nurses of other Wards.

Each has its Ward Surgeon and corps of nurses.

Female Nurses for Soldiers.

Wright, of Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, is one of those good nurses.

Little Jane

  • Date: December 7, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sickness of our good little sister; and each time it proves to be nothing worse than some whim of the nurse

Letter IX

  • Date: 16 December 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

plain condition and probabilities, I told him by all means to get himself home to his old mother's nursing

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

a heroic opportunity indeed, and he used it like a hero, serving with passionate devotedness as a nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Leaves of Grass (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

Leaves of Grass (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

head close, and half- envelop half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

Introduction to Walt Whitman, Poemas, by Álvaro Armando Vasseur

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen | Rachel Price
Text:

Walt Whitman practiced as a volunteer nurse during the War of Secession.

Nietzsche was also a nurse during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71).

The Great Washington Hospitals

  • Date: 19 March 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of good jelly; I carry a good sized jar to a ward, have it opened, get a spoon, and taking the head nurse

C of that regiment, Isaac Snyder; he is now acting as nurse there, and makes a very good one.

the other hospitals I met with general cordiality and deference among the doctors, ward officers, nurses

Of course there are exceptions of good officials here, and some of the women nurses are excellent, but

surgeons in charge of many of the hospitals, and often the ward surgeons, medical cadets, and head nurses

The Great Army of the Sick

  • Date: 26 February 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Each ward has a Ward-master, and generally a nurse for every ten or twelve men.

Some of the wards have a woman nurse—the Armory-square wards have some very good ones.

The nurse from Ward E to whom Whitman refers may be Amanda Akin Stearns, whose memoir of her time as

a nurse in Armory Square General Hospital is titled, The Lady Nurse of Ward E .

that could not be repressed—sometimes a poor fellow dying, with emaciated face and glassy eye, the nurse

Gems from Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Elizabeth Porter Gould | Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Porter Gould
Text:

personal presence and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism" that he was able to help, than by "medical nursing

He gives fine praise to the surgeons, nurses and soldiers—"not a bit of sentimentalism or whining have

and many a mother's son amid strangers passing away untended there, for the crowd was too much for nurse

From Washington

  • Date: 22 September 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The routine demanded at these huge hospitals from the duties of surgeon, nurse, &c., is generally fulfilled

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