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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

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

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

Type-setting, carpentering, editing, army nursing, all these resulted in my love for humanity and sympathy

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

Yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, representatives of the matrons, sisters and nurses of the

Lord Tennyson has written these lines in the first volume of his works:— Take, lady, what your loyal nurses

Representatives of matrons, sisters and nurses of the Kingdom waited on the Princess Louise of Schleswig–Holstein

these simple lines, being the latest and probably the last from his pen: Take, lady, what your loyal nurses

I got over the 4th favorably—am sitting here by the window as usual—have had a good supper—My nurse has

I obtained a nurse, for my time was occupied in procuring remedies—all day—until allmost almost night

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

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

Ushered into the snug little parlor, the visitor noted the retreating foot falls of the nurse as she

States and principal cities, North and South—went to the front (moving about and occupied as army nurse

—He also gave my nurse each night instructions that at the end of each 2 hours, I should take a milk

But as soon as war was declared, Whitman threw up all other appointments and went in to serve as a nurse

He nursed over a hundred thousand men with his own hands, for five years he had not more than two nights

A trained female nurse, he said, took care of Mr.

I was very sorry to hear from M rs Traubel that you were going to lose your good, kind nurse M Zeller

Pensions had already been given to nurses, but somehow the project failed; possibly because Whitman had

Some of the nurses are excellent. 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.

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

within a few months paid him a visit, made a series of photographs of dwelling, street, room, and nurse

men need to know of him is his wonderful simplicity and capaciousness—that manuscript, house, room, nurse

Plato gives in the first pages of the Republic—enjoying the abiding presence of sweet hope, that 'kind 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

critics, so that they might write about him; at one period I even though of becoming his voluntary nurse

referring to his nurse, "Warry," as his sailor boy, he said that he had been of great service to him

Davis, and the nurses.

About twenty minutes before his death he whispered to his nurse, "Warry, shift," the pain in his side

Davis, and the nurses.

About twenty minutes before his death he whispered to his nurse, " Warry, shift,''he pain in hisside

Wilkins days ETC. 01 MEMORIES, LETTERS, has my young Kanuck, my nurse and helper Dr.

Horace [Traubel] and my nurse Ed. have gone prospecting to Phila :for a suitableout-door chairfor me

My ypung nurse isdown stairslearning his fiddle lesson. Sun shining out to-day. '90.

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.

for three years and a half: meanwhile the Civil War was raging, and in 1862 he went to the front, to nurse

the wards a few fruits and delicacies, which he distributed with the approval of the surgeons and nurses

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

Exclusiveness and war were the nurses of growing humanity's powers— of com- radeship,organised life,community

I said 'Let it go', but doctors and nurses made a strong pull for it; fought for it like royal tigers

As he requires constant attendance night and day, we yesterday introduced a trained nurse, Mrs.

most intimate friends, afterward his biographer, and one of his literary executors, met me at the Nurses

This was Warren Fritzinger,* **Died in October 1899. his nurse, and my constant associate in taking care

And that strange feeling which comes over patient and nurse when they are learning to know each other

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

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

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

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

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

Walt said that Lowell, on his sick-bed, was bothered with nurses and doctors, and had said,"Can't you

Elizabeth Leavitt Keller was Whitman's last nurse, and is a writer about him.

words that he was led to disbelieve in Walt's kind-heartedness (think of that in the case of a war nurse

I giveto Warren Fritzinger (my nurse) $200. I order and direct that Mary O.

Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (nurse), Longfellow and Whitman, false articlein Putnam's by, 99. story about

W. man of the woods, nurse, friend, journalist, paralytic…..Poet?

alone in the wilds, a marriage that is consummated in a hostile environment, and the lonely I who nurses

as it would have remained otherwise. . . . the physiological Leaves of Grass-the Leaves of Grass nursed

swallowing soul" is metonymic rather than metaphoric, related to our first "experiential knowledge" of nursing

Although he was nei ther doctor nor nurse, he took care of needs beyond the reach of medicine, and he

called the doctor's attention to him, shook up the nurses, had him bathed in spirits, gave him lumps

Doyle and Eldridge alternated as nurses, attending him day and night.

Davis could provide, there was a procession of male companions or nurses.

Baker, after serving briefly as one of Whitman's nurses, left to complete a medical degree. 66.

In 1862 he went to the war, and it was while act ing as nurse of the wounded soldiers that he gained

I went first of all from Brooklyn to Washington to nurse some of my friends.

Hourly or oftener he would ring or call the nurse to change his position.

At another time the nurse told him they were thinking of getting a new bed for him.

As he requires constant attendance night and day, we yester day introduced a trained nurse, Mrs.

When in 1888 Bucke thought that Whitman, an invalid in New Jersey, needed a new nurse, he sent down a

Whitman did like "Ed," so much that when someone re ferred to him as Whitman's nurse, Whitman corrected

the refer ence to read "Whitman's Canadian friend and nurse."

whowritespubliclyacceptable poems ofAmeri can patriotism so dear to the father's heart, Whitman the male nurse

in Whitman's life and work, foremost among them the con tinued failure of his book, his Civil War nursing

writes publicly acceptable poems of American patriotism so dear to the father's heart, Whitman the male nurse

in Whitman's life and work, foremost among them the continued failure of his book, his Civil War nursing

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

Miss But ton [Whitman's next-door neighbor] told an anecdote ofWhitman, when an army nurse in Washington

Likely, it was Oscar Cunningham, the Ohio soldier whom Whitman nursed at Armory Square Hospital.

In the winter of 1862-63, Louisa May Alcott nursed the wounded soldiers there and drew her Hospital Sketches

Nursing Walt On Thursday evening, January 23, 1873, Whitman suffered a stroke while reading in the Attorney

Spelling nursing duties with Ellen O'Connor and Charley Eldridge, Peter Doyle attended Whitman regularly

Pete also became better acquainted with Charles Eldridge and Ellen O'Connor, as the erstwhile nurses

He then goes on to show-and emphasize-how Whitman entered the Civil War as a volunteerand a nurse.

The image of Whitman as nurse and wound-dresser who, through his mere presence, helped wounded soldiers

The nursing myth has been carried to its greatest extreme: at sundown Whitman was crying(!)

essence pacifist war W HITM AN ON THE RIGHT poetry (supported biographicallythrough his work as a nurse

Whitman's much-praised efforts in nursing wounded soldiers were denounced as the lecherous pursuits ofa

Whitman's activi ties as a nurse during the Civil War were described as an apostolate.

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

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

6os, just after thLeaves had ap peared, he spent the Civil War on the battlefield and worked as a nurse

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

During the Civil War, nursing was not the profession of today.

The Gelman Library, George Washington University Photograph of volunteer nurses.

Photograph of nurse Amanda Akin. Akin tolerated Whitman in person, but just barely.

Perhaps these nurses simply resented Whitman's constant presence in the hospital.

Harper, 1896), 169; Stearns, The Lady Nurse , 246; Whitman, , 1: 329. David S.

Nurses are kept in attendance from this time to his death.

The first of Whitman's male nurses is employed, Nathan M. Baker.

Edward Wilkins becomes Whitman's nurse (nN, 2:476).

Whitman's first nurse, Nathan Baker, graduates from medical school, and Dr.

A hired nurse, Elizabeth L. Keller, begins taking care of Whitman. 1892 1 JANUARY.