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Although he attributed the collapse of his health to prolonged exposure to viruses and diseases while nursing

Not to be omitted are Whitman's accounts of his days spent nursing the wounded and dying Civil War soldiers

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

They said he was in permanent charge of a nurse, who went with him wherever he happened to be; even intimated

What's more, he had no nurse about him—nobody at all.

"You were also a nurse during the war," put in the reporter, by way of information to the venerable poet

I went to and fro among the wards as an independent nurse; on my hook, as the soldier said who laid behind

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

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

His nurse, Wilkins, said Mr.

He yet lives in his cottage, with housekeeper and nurse, in Mickle street, Camden, New Jersey, retains

i went again and marthe went he wanted her to come she was there nearly all day only came home to nurse

Nurse speaks of his extreme and growing weakness. "I can notice a change in two days."

I went up and talked with the nurse and she advised me to bring J. up immediately—which I did.

As I saw the case, and heard from the nurse's lips also, it was pitiful to see the agony the poor fellow

Mack, the nurse; and often and often have the soldiers mentioned her, and shown me something she has

negro waitress who so effusively greeted him at the hall the night of the dinner had had a husband nursed

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

do quite with it as you told me. that is I did not take it to each one, but I took it to the lady nurse

You wrote about Emma, her thinking she might & ought to come as nurse for the soldiers—dear girl, I know

Whitman might have spent the remainder of his days in the Federal District.Drawn initially to D.C. to nurse

The talk got upon the nurse fund.

"Harlots and sinners—discredited persons, criminals: they should be my audience: women, doctors, nurses

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.

pioneer in the backwoods, a tramway conductor in New York, a soldier in the great civil war, a hospital nurse

I struck out the 'volunteer hospital nurse' line.

Yet the nurses tell me he does help them markedly when they move him and that last night he even threw

Tell him, Horace, that I am well-looked after—that I am satisfied everything is done for me—doctors, nurses

(By the way, doctors and nurses and W. seem only to guess what may cause this soreness—no one makes any

Does the nurse use the flesh brush on Walt?

to be wheeled out in the sunlight in his little coach, propelled by the strong arms of his Canadian nurse

One imagines that burly tenderness of the man who went to supply the "——lack of woman's nursing" that

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

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

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

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

He has tenderly cared for the wounded, nursed the sick, consoled the dying and buried the dead.

Whitman did good service as nurse and attendant in those trying days, and relates scores of pathetic

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

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

any indications he might give—try to be on hand yourself—and to make sure speak quietly to the new nurse

always fed—cannot wield knife and fork and even tires using his fingers, as I have seen him do, the nurse

Yet was a bit stronger, too—could help in trifling [ways] when the nurse worked about or with him.Had

reported his state "only so-so," and contended that his day had been "spent poorly—poorly," though the nurse

Nurse told McKay, "You find him at his best," and Dave argues, "If that was the best, what is his worst

Bucke suggests an additional nurse to relieve Warrie but Warrie resists.

.: "Doctor says I ain't a good nurse." "In what respect?""In letting you go without the medicine.""

expected to be so utterly worn out as I am, after I, in some measure, recovered from the exhaustion of nursing

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

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

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

department by Secretary Harlan and gained him the friendship of Tennyson, and of the days when its author nursed

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