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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was in charge of nursing in the military hospitals at Scutari, Turkey

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

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

"Nursing the Union soldiers?" "Union and rebel," was the answer.

I nursed him in the hospital."

Our good friend here nursed us both, like our own mother.

times of marriage, the cradle by the fire-lit hearth, the infant's dimpled hand caressing the white nursing

"I nursed them both together in the hospital," he resumed, in a gentler strain.

Seems to be a professional nurse.

The nurse had left her daily notes for me. The air tranquil.

—had some conversations on nurses, nursing and the care of the sick. Mr.

But best of all is the careful nursing, Doctor."

Does the nurse use the flesh brush on Walt?

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.

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

abandonments;' but in 1862, on the breaking out of the Civil War, he undertook the (gratuitous) service of nursing

Spring, with your crown of roses budding news, Thought-nursing and most melancholy fall, Summer, with

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.”

He then repaired to the city of Washington, and devoted himself to nursing and conversing with the wounded

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

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.

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.

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,

Had the new nurse turned up yet? W. laughed.

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

His nurse, Wilkins, said Mr.

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

But "the ideal nurse is yet to come."

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

He has been a visitor of prisons, a protector of fugitive slaves, a constant voluntary nurse, night and

one of those pretty and good girls, who in muslin and ribbons ornament the wards, and are called "nurses

fight (and perhaps lacking the inclination to bear arms), he began his service as a psychological nurse

felt A thrill run through him and thought he was dying  he was in the dark  he cald to one of the nurses

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.

whose son died in hospital:— Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requisite in surgical treatment, nursing

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

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

Have not got on track of a nurse yet.Tuesday, October 15, 18897.15 P.M.

I gave Ed a letter to Gould about a new nurse. Hard to secure!

As to a new nurse, W., "We're all hoping it will be the right man."

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

I never felt this so much as with nurses—how some have the nurse's gift.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Jeff's wife, Mattie, attempted to be a peacemaker: she offered to nurse George if he should return home

The child must have had a memory to remember her firstlesso— that of toddling from mother to nurse !

Babington, head the nurse, and we have also of Lying-in Hospital, so I feel sure all isbeing done for

That nurse, from allmy girlssay of her,seems tobe a most anxious painstaking woman.

— The nurse thinks that by next week Anne willbe quite up to her work. ...

Pray ask your 'nurse' and your 'sunshine' toaccept my love.

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

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

He did the things forthem which no nurse or doctor could do, and he seemed toleave a benediction at every

You wrote about Emma, her tliinkingshe might and ought to come as nurse for thesoldiers.

saw one of those prettyand good girls,who in muslin and ribbons ornament the wards, and are called "nurses

which isthe chief literaryglory of our country in the capitals of Europe — the book of the good gray nurse

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

(December 1862) precipitated Walt's departure to the Washington, D.C., area and ultimately to his nursing

The former depicts a setting with one soldier nursing his dying companion that could almost accompany

description of the possible house—she expressed her appreciation for the two devoted companions who were nursing

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.

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.

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

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for 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

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

sickness of our good little sister; and each time, it proves to be nothing worse than some whim of the nurse

turn to fire, Its coolness change to thirst; And by its mirth, within the brain A sleepless worm is nursed

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.

together up-stairsby two capable policemen, were wheeled into the hall.Whitman's Canadian friend and nurse

His best yearshad been devoted to the sacred duty of nursing thesick and wounded soldiers in the army

I always confer with the doctor, or find out from the nurse or ward-master about a new case.

He was nurse at the time to a number of soldiers, badly wounded in the late battles, and whose wounds

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

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

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

And he added: "I don't seem to be a hospital person: I rebel against the idea of being nursed, cared

There's no use nursing the memory of it: it's best forgotten.

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

The talk got upon the nurse fund.

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

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