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By Florence Nightingale
The very first canon of nursing, the first and the last thing upon which a nurse's attention must be fixed, the first essential to the patient, without which all the rest you can do for him is as nothing, with which I had almost said you may leave all the rest alone, is this: TO KEEP THE AIR HE BREATHES AS PURE AS THE EXTERNAL AIR, WITHOUT CHILLING HIM.
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- Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, 1860 · Chapter I (Ventilation and Warming)
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- Harrison, London (Project Gutenberg text, eBook #17366)
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From Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (London: Harrison, 1860), Chapter I (Ventilation and Warming). Nightingale prints the last clause in capital letters, as here. She calls it the first canon of nursing, the thing a nurse must fix her attention on before anything else.