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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

a good strong willing nurse , & good doctoring watch—I send my love & memories to Mrs: F., to Baxter,

of coffee— My housekeeper Mrs: Davis is compell'd to be temporarily absent these two days & Ed my nurse

I am his sole & only nurse, & help to dress, undress & bathe him, & he is under no restraint to say how

You must remember that I am housekeeper, nurse, marketer, & have to see that the house is decent, if

So far I am the only nurse, & if you have been as badly off as he is, you may have some idea of what

You will ask why we don't have a nurse?

America Feb: 10 '90 — It is near sunset after a bright winter day & I am waiting for my supper—my young nurse

Karin is babbling on the floor, playing with blocks, & both nurses are adding a not insignificant share

received your two letters, & was glad to get them— —Mother has been quite sick, & I have been sort of nurse

request a few days ago Yes I will gladly write for the Century an article on the Hospitals & Hospital Nursing

early supper (do not eat dinner at all, find it best)—have massage every day—bath also—have a good nurse

had sent you word not to—all right now tho—it is ab't sun-down—I am waiting for my supper—My young nurse

Doughty & Maggie well—Warry still my nurse & satisfactory—Horace Traubel married & well—faithful as ever—So

onnor] (f'm the wife ) to day, & I am gloomy—Dr B[ucke] writes me every day & cheerily—Horace & my nurse

Shillaber's paper, if he were willing to publish it, stating that I am now as a volunteer nurse among

him—Mother, such things are awful—not a soul here he knew or cared about, except me—yet the surgeons & nurses

.—& a great staff of surgeons, cadets, women & men nurses &c &c.

musquito curtains—all is quite still—an occasional sigh or groan—up in the middle of the ward the lady nurse

dirty & torn, & many pale as ashes, & all bloody—I distributed all my stores, gave partly to the nurses

If Miss Hill in ward F or the lady nurse in ward E cares about reading it to the boys in those wards

wish to hear about them—every one is so unfeeling, it has got to be an old story—there is no good nursing—O

Alfred has good accommodations where he is, & a good doctor, & nursing—so you must not worry about him

D sick quite badly—neuralgia—Warry my nurse is helpful & good—of course I am up now & sitting by the

Davis, my housekeeper, is well—She has been off to Kansas & Colorado on a jaunt—Warren Fritzinger my nurse

all—bladder business troublesome at night—am sitting here in my den alone as usual by the stove—my nurse

Howard's sister Sallie is very sick, I think typhoid fever, & I have been out to-day trying to get a nurse

I got a good nurse for them, as their nurse had to leave.

Respectfully Walt Whitman This is Warren Fritzinger, my nurse & friend— Walt Whitman to George Ferguson

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

or, in other words, that his sore head would be good Black Republican capital, and as such he would nurse

on the go night and day, personally ministering to hundreds and thousands, healing the wounded and nursing

friends from seeing me)—& for a month or so I was in a horrible plight—a nuisance to myself & all—but my nurse

D and Ed Wilkins (my nurse) are good & so far I get along fairly with appetite, grub & sleep wh' of course

wanted, all ab't, mainly & detailedly O'C's condition & every thing relating to him —(a good strong man nurse

You must remember that I am housekeeper, nurse, marketer, & have to see that the house is decent, if

So far I am the only nurse, & if you have been as badly off as he is, you may have some idea of what

You will ask why we don't have a nurse & the answer is William does not want one, & is not ready yet,

big chair by the fire, the stove—it is sharp & cold, bright & sunny—Ed Wilkins (my young Kanuck, my nurse

Phil: Record Nov 24 As I write Ed W is making up the bed—he is a good nurse to me & does well—I believe

threatening rain—My sister Lou this forenoon with a nice chicken & some Graham biscuits—Warren (my nurse

the third day—A young rather green fellow, Charles Sterrit, came over here as candidate for my new nurse

in the Nov. sun—find my head & bodily strength pretty low yet (no improvement)—I like my sailor boy nurse

Fritzinger, has just been up to see me—I like the two fellows, & they do me good (his brother Warren is my nurse

22 '89 Fine sunny weather continued—Warren Fritzinger , one of Mrs D's sailor boys, is acting as my nurse

more you want)—damp & dark, & very mild here—I have had a bath, & am sitting here alone—Warren my nurse