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Saw several persons in the course of the day about a nurse for W.—, two doctors, S.

Referring to the matter of the nurse, W. said laughingly: "It is with that as with the getting a husband

He is carefully attended by a male nurse, sent by his friend Dr. Bucke of London, Ont.

The nurse is a strong and sympathetic young Canadian, and the expense is met by a number of Whitman's

The nurse's daily report, as I enter and nod to him in the parlor, is "tolerable, tolerable"—and Mrs.

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

which is the chief literary glory of our country in the capitals of Europe—the book of the good gray nurse

Its A pleasure to know that you are comfortable—am glad to know that Mrs D & the nurse are kind I hope

Its A pleasure to know that you are comfortable—am glad to know that Mrs D & the nurse are kind I hope

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

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

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

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

is so painful to us to hear of so dear a friend being in trouble, we sh.d should like to go over & nurse

get away tomorrow but hope to— We had quite a pleasant time in coming on—Mrs Rice —(with child and nurse

bring George home with you and how nicely we would establish him in our front room with Mat as chief nurse

His disease of course makes Andrew fretful and discouraged, and instead of soothing and nursing him Nancy

let him have one of her rooms upstairs for him to sleep in and I intended to see if he could not be nursed

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

Has nurses and all done for him that can be.

when Ingersoll said "Let Walt have it" and it was done, I knew we would still have to pay for the nurse

Bucke, Osler, Wharton and Walsh, and a good nurse, Edward Wilkins, a young, strong Canadian.

Nurse was fixing bed. W. awake. She saw me in the doorway and said to W., "Here is Mr. Traubel."

your hands: yet I would have you always lean to the side of mercy—don't oppress me with doctors, nurses

W.: "Yes, a bad form: it meant death, death: I nursed many a man down with diarrhæa."

it was very bad: we nursed him: I was there once, twice, often three times a day: posted the nurses,

It had occurred while no attendants were present— "cadets, nurses, doctors, me."

ago—the devilishly obstinate, illiterate boy he was: no one could do anything with him: doctors, nurses

He's a surgeon, Horace, you notice: you remember what I've always said: surgeons, mothers, nurses—they

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

Talked of nurses. "After all the best nurses are women—at the last the women are always called in.

Men are the best nurses up to that point—then, somehow, the woman tells."

She was without any of the absurd pruderies which unfit so many young women for nursing."

But "the ideal nurse is yet to come."

A man is naturally a perfect nurse when he is himself, but he never is himself!"

where, for what: but Mary Davis talked with him: she knows much about that peculiar disease, having nursed

In the MS., (my portion) where I had written simply "Whitman's nurse, Edward Wilkins"—he suggested "Whitman's

Canadian friend and nurse"—an admirable change, removing the servility implied by the first phrase.

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

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

turning to me: "What he seems most to need is a skilful able-bodied man—a nurse.

Bucke's letter of the thirtieth to me, in which he said on the nurse question: "Still you say nothing

We have not given him any details of the fund which puts the nurse in the house, but he knows of it in

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

introduced the latter as the man Gould had secured as his successor—the other his friend, a professional nurse

I find myself very anxious on this point of the nurse.

And thanks to the careful nursing of my dear wife, and the pure and healthful air of the mountains, my

This rather staggered me, as experience has shown how difficult it is to get a nurse for W. who combines

hospitals that as long as there is any chance for a man, no matter how bad he may be, the surgeon and nurses

As you advance through the dusk of early candle-light a nurse will step forth on tip-toe, and silently

If it is a case where stimulus is any relief, the nurse gives milk-punch or brandy, or whatever is wanted

." a general ice-cream treat, purchasing a large quantity, and, under convoy of the doctor or head nurse

confidence and love between us, welded by sickness, pain of wounds, and little daily, nightly offices of nursing

forlorn Whitman, one reduced to a few short lines written at brief intervals as he continues his labors nursing

argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

head close, and half- envelop half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Claiming that he is "more than nurse," "more than parent or neighbor," Whitman approaches the reader,

nature of physical existence, a theme he was about to experience in all of its loathsome reality as he nursed

—have been out in my wheel chair for a 40 minute open air jaunt (propell'd by WF. my sailor boy nurse

thesearticlessupportedasocialist-humanitarianand pacifistreadingofWhitman,andtheyshowedacontinuingadmirationfor the poet’s nursing

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.

where for the next ten years (punctuated by trips back to Brooklyn) he lived and worked as volunteer nurse

.— For the city or state to become the general guardian or overseer and dry nurse of a man, and point

I showed him a card I had from Josephine Lazarus, who had come into my nurse fund.