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Let him who can do so shroud the eyes of the nursing babe lest it should see its mother's breast. . .

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

On the way back, he stopped at Sterling, Kansas, to visit a Civil War veteran whom he had nursed in a

His friends came to his aid and furnished the services of a male nurse so that, after a fashion, he was

His first nurse was a medical student, Eddie Wilkins; he was succeeded by Frank Warren Fritzinger, a

Marsh finds redemption for his guilty soul by nursing cholera victims in the "dirtiest and wretchedest

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."

heregardedfarmersin the rural areas and workers in the coal pits, respectively, as the nurses of humanity

There are two good women nurses, one on each side.

One of the nurses constantly fanshim,foritisfearfullyhot.Heaskstoberais’dup,andtheyputhiminahalf- sitting

Warren Fritzinger, WW’s male nurse. 2.

butwithnormalmentalityandgoodright-armpower.Heyetlivesinhiscottage,withhousekeeper 108 T H E C O L L E C T E D W R I T I N G S O F WA L T W H I T M A N and nurse

in hospitals becoming words, occasionally literally stained by the blood of the young men he was nursing

the years after the war, many successful reminiscences of Civil War hospitals, written mostly by nurses

aware that there was a market for such books, but his, of course, would be something different from a nursing

His devotion as a volunteer nurse in the Civil War needsnorepetition,andhispoetryofthatperiodisanenduringpartofourpa

Let dead hearts tarry, and trade and marry, And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, While we, the

During the War Whitman gave his strength and the health of his future years to nursing his wounded brothers

provide context for poems drafted at the time, many of which were inspired by wounded soldiers Whitman nursed

aged black woman is “hardly human” and is desexualized like other aged black women he approved of as nurses

definite plans at that time, or for long afterwards; but attention to the Brooklyn friends led to nursing

(ww, 35) Bucke’s account depicts a family crisis as instigating Whitman’s wartime nursing.

Burroughs’s account of Whitman’s Civil War nursing is even more extravagant.

247, 249 movement, 307; and Calhoun, Civil War, 261, 364 76; and democracy, 42–46; and Civil War nursing

lastbreathsothattheirdeadwillcontinuetobehuman—notjustchunksofmeat, but bodies that are cherished, nursed

hospitals compare to those of Harriet Jacobs, Louisa May Alcott, Abraham Lincoln, and now little-known nurses

journalist, and, most significantly, as onewho had seen so much of the misery of the war while serving as a nurse

Mr.Gilder’s request I write to ask if you would not write us a short, comprehensive paper on Hospital Nursing

There was no nurse or watcher there, for the physician had said it was of no importance, and all were

Its death came from neglect and ill nursing.

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

the violet: / Humility is the fair-haired maid, that calleth Worth her brother, / the gentle silent nurse

Indeed, it is difficult to imagine the war nurse who moved to Washington and threw himself into his work

was seen being embraced by “the negro cook,” who had come out to greet the poet because Whitman had nursed

surprising, since Whitman witnessed the effects of mangled and brutalized bodies firsthand when he nursed

Other notebooks contain notes Whitman made while working as a nurse in Civil War hospitals in Washington

On Whitman’s years in Washington and his role as a “nurse,” see, for example, Peter Coviello’s introduction

Later, on a day trip with Douglas, Paschal, her son, and the slave Sophy who was his nurse, Douglas presented

Mitchell paid fifteen dollars per month for the next two years to help cover the nursing costs.

Sawyer, a soldier he nursed at Armory Square Hospital.

Whitman was forty-two years old when he went into camp and hospital to nurse soldiers.

Hsu, “Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse,” 238. 174.

“Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse Who Witnessed the Advent of Modern American Medicine.”

Immediately after, he moved to Washington, where he took on the role of a volunteer day nurse, visiting

The speaker then describes “The women volunteering for nurses—the work begun for, in earnest—no mere

So for the next three years, he volunteered his services as a nurse, swapping out ban dages, comforting

time-space oftherecruitmentpoems(“Drum-Taps,”“FirstOSongsforaPrelude”) and in thevivid memories ofaged nurses

in the structure of historical time, we gaze at the stars.Or wewait, or we march.Or we see Whitman nursing

Whitman on the Camden wharf with Warren Fritzinger, who was his nurse and companion during the last three

thesearticlessupportedasocialist-humanitarianand pacifistreadingofWhitman,andtheyshowedacontinuingadmirationfor the poet’s nursing

In the conservatives’ most extreme warnings, the benighted citizen nurses his parochial and selfish hatreds

more help with daily tasks, and from the mid-1880s, Traubel played many roles in Whitman's life—from nurse

Nursing the horribly wounded was as repugnant to Burroughs as handling mangled corpses, and he soon left

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.

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

The new nurse, whose name is Musgrove, is an older man than Baker.

He is only a nurse—not a doctor. W. motioned the medicine away.

I struck out the 'volunteer hospital nurse' line.

As I was going W. said: "I'm nursing up a surprise for you." "Good or bad?"

Had slept later than usual—to 11 from 9.30 last night, nurse said.

The new nurse, whose name is Musgrove, is an older man than Baker.

Change of nurses has something to do with this. Musgrove is a cloudy man. I asked how M. got on.

He is only a nurse—not a doctor. W. motioned the medicine away.

Gilder had added underneath the headline: "By Walt Whitman, volunteer hospital nurse."

I struck out the 'volunteer hospital nurse' line.

sentries at the gates and in the passages &c,—and a great staff of surgeons, cadets, women and men nurses

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

Even the nurse remarked the other night when Kemper sat in the parlor with us that "the way Mr.

He had nursed her husband in the hospital at Washington.

They also presented him with a nurse's chair for his use about the house.

Davis & his nurse & we could have a jolly time.

but of necessity that a nurse should be kept and of the grace it would do W.'

Bucke approached W. on the subject of a nurse.

You fellows have about convinced me that I should have a nurse.

We all agreed that a nurse should be secured at once.

He also objected to having the nurse sleep there in the room with him.

There is to be a change of nurses tomorrow. Baker will go.

it is poor O'Connor who should have the nurse, not me: poor William: he deserves it, I do not."

Then: "I was just saying the other day that Leaves of Grass could only be thoroughly understood by nurses

remedies as their disease required, to say nothing of being exposed all annoyances and want of good nursing