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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.

He is watched day and night by nurses who never quit him together; and his young friend Mr.

Does the nurse use the flesh brush on Walt?

work here finished & completed,—but yet not so far removed from us after all.Glad that he has a good nurse

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

Whitman fund—am trying to get a small monthly guarantee each from a group of people to pay for the nurse

He knows the nurse is put here by his friends. I have not explained anything to him in detail.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Arrived there, the kindness of Violet did not pause at any attentions or motherly nursings.

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

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

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

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

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

If I had known earlier I would have gone on to Los Angeles myself, to nurse the lad; but this seems unnecessary

you, but the pressure is so great that I can't get the moment to sit down, for as yet I am the only nurse

If things get worse I shall have to have a man to help me lift & nurse William.

I am sure he could advise me how to nurse & care for William in the best hospital manner,—as yet he has

I am his sole & only nurse, & help to dress, undress & bathe him, & he is under no restraint to say how

Howard's sister Sallie is very sick, I think typhoid fever, & I have been out to-day trying to get a nurse

You must remember that I am housekeeper, nurse, marketer, & have to see that the house is decent, if

So far I am the only nurse, & if you have been as badly off as he is, you may have some idea of what

You will ask why we don't have a nurse?

I got a good nurse for them, as their nurse had to leave.

I should like to have been with you so I could have nursed you back to health & strength, but if you

would have stayed longer with you only for some of the Camden fellows that was keeping up the nurce nurse

—He also gave my nurse each night instructions that at the end of each 2 hours, I should take a milk

voyage did me much good, and when I arrived at Rugby, I was well enough to help for a month or two in nursing

If Niebuhr, with all his extravagant admiration of the wolf-nursed race, felt himself bound thus to speak

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

or, in other words, that his sore head would be good Black Republican capital, and as such he would nurse

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, representatives of the matrons, sisters and nurses of the

Lord Tennyson has written these lines in the first volume of his works:— Take, lady, what your loyal nurses

I was very sorry to hear from M rs Traubel that you were going to lose your good, kind nurse M Zeller

tonic for the war-weary Whitman, who had spent the previous two years in Washington's army hospitals nursing

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."

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

Exclusiveness and war were the nurses of growing humanity's powers— of com- radeship,organised life,community

Ushered into the snug little parlor, the visitor noted the retreating foot falls of the nurse as she

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

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

When in 1888 Bucke thought that Whitman, an invalid in New Jersey, needed a new nurse, he sent down a

Whitman did like "Ed," so much that when someone re ferred to him as Whitman's nurse, Whitman corrected

the refer ence to read "Whitman's Canadian friend and nurse."

whowritespubliclyacceptable poems ofAmeri can patriotism so dear to the father's heart, Whitman the male nurse

in Whitman's life and work, foremost among them the con tinued failure of his book, his Civil War nursing

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

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