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He does not know how I am paying for the nurse.”
Pessimist: Nurse Keller “He was rather disappointed that the nurse was a woman,” Traubel reported of
He had nursed her husband in the hospital at Washington.”
This was his first specification of what form a nurse should take.
A man to nurse me, not one I must nurse. Oh, that is very essential.”
precisely the man to organize a regiment on Broadway but selecting the minor & safe function of a nurse
Higginson contrasted Whitman's unmanly devotion to nursing with Sir Philip Sidney's manly exploits as
Col Higginson wanted to know why the noble women nurses of the war sh not receive pensions as well.
Imagine the baseness of a nation allowing, as it did, a man whose health broke down nursing a hundred
Better be a good nurse like Walt Whitman, than a nondescript warrior like the Rev. Col. Higginson."