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The talk got upon the nurse fund.

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

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

I told W. of a French nurse whose method of dealing with children had interested me.

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

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

His nurse, Wilkins, said Mr.

early years: teaching, loafing, working on the newspapers: traveling: then in Washington—clerking, nursing

they call it The Other Side of the War: it is written by Katharine Wormeley: I think she must be a nurse

the door there unassisted—must help myself with a chair, the table, anything—sometimes calling the nurse

"I think you are well off as to doctors and nurses now—Osler, Walsh and Wilkins—it is a strong team and

reached over quietly and took my hand: "Not to speak of you, Horace, who are worth all the doctors and nurses

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

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!"

After B. was gone W. said: "He's a gentle fellow—was a sweet nurse: it was like good health to have him

Burroughs advises more energetic, even drastic, nursing—rubbing, massage, and so on.

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

Nurse says W.'s bowels are open but much of the food passes through undigested.

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

I explained: "The same people who put the nurse here." He was touched deeply. "And who are they?"

When I called, found the vestibule door unfastened and apparently no one about—neither nurse nor Mrs.

I had never heard him in all the months before express any desire for the presence of a nurse—even care

where the nurse might be—but this evening he said: "I do not like his staying so long and saying nothing

W. in handing me letter from Bucke which came today, said: "He speaks there of a change of the nurse.

I do not hear good accounts of your present nurse (Musgrove) and I have just written to Horace about

W. received a long letter from Bucke to-daytoday talking about the change in nurses.

He stayed in Washington during and after the Civil War, serving first as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals

Lines 5–11 suggest Whitman's service as a nurse during the Civil War and echo passages from Drum-Taps

indicates an indictment of Longfellow, who had continued to write sentimental verse while Whitman was nursing

wounded men bound for the hospitals in Washington, D.C., where he took up residence and continued to nurse

His three years nursing in the Washington hospitals were surely heroic in humanitarian terms.

Section seven is one of the better sections, in which Whitman's years spent nursing wounded Civil War

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

Walt Whitman's war ministry in the capital's hospitals followed upon his nursing of brother George on

Joann P.KriegFritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)Fritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)Whitman's nurse

The biographer Paul Zweig sees in Whitman's ability to touch and comfort soldiers—Whitman nursed and

perceptively points out that prior to the cataclysm of the Civil War and Whitman's active involvement in nursing

for the poet the dominating metaphor for the war is a hospital, filled with injured men who must be nursed

Its narrator takes on the role of nurse, attendant to the sufferings of injured soldiers.

Mary Oakes had a long history of nursing the ill and elderly.

Davis's strongest defender is Whitman's nurse, Elizabeth Leavitt Keller, who portrays Davis as selflessly

Leaders of the Civil War," for which he asked Whitman to write a piece about his work as a volunteer nurse

resurrection and immortality.In this interpretation, Whitman mourns naturally the loss of those he knew and nursed

He boasted to one of his younger correspondents, a soldier he had nursed during the war years, that he

Reefy, "[l]ike Walt Whitman," was a nurse in the Civil War (330).

Baker, Whitman's nurse for two years and a witness to Whitman's will of 29 June 1888.

served as matron of Sing Sing prison for four years (1844–1848), worked at the Perkins Institution, nursed

was introduced in the Congress to give Whitman a twenty-five-dollar a month pension for his work nursing

in a visit he made to Brooklyn shortly before his brother's death, but he was back in Washington nursing

about Whitman, stating, "I am sorry to hear of the physical disabilities of the man who tenderly nursed

Patricia J.TyrerKeller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839)Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839) A professional nurse

, Keller was employed to care for Whitman (1892), along with his personal nurse, Warren Fritzinger, during

War hospital work and to blood poisoning acquired from gangrenous wounds of patients Whitman had nursed

Longaker paid frequent visits and provided various medications, which Whitman's nurse, Elizabeth Leavitt

McAlister, his housekeeper Mary Oakes Davis, nurse Warren Fritzinger, and friends Thomas B.

The two men met early in 1863 while Whitman was nursing Sawyer's friend Lewy Brown, and soon Whitman

this job enabled Whitman to write his poetry and, at the same time, perform his ministrations as a nurse

war poems.The text evokes a small, wartime scene of the sort which Whitman, in his capacity as a nurse's

Whitman discovers a way to give eternal meaning to that slaughter of young men, many of whom he had nursed

Journal on two cassettes (Audio Scholar), a spoken word Whitman autobiography describing his life as nurse

was writing the piece, Adams says, his father was dying of Alzheimer's disease and his mother was nursing

Once again, as in the Adams work, Whitman's role as nurse is exploited.

shorter poems in the "Sea-Drift" section of Leaves of Grass, the sea is personified as an old mother or nurse