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Florence Nightingale
The Nurse


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Florence Nightingale

 Florence wrote a book about 'Minding Baby' for young Nurses in 1861  ...

Florence talks to her trainee Nurses

"And now, girls, I have a word for you. You and I have all had a great deal to do with "minding baby," though "baby" was not our own baby. And we would all of us do a great deal for baby, which we would not do for ourselves. "

Can you sort out what she said to them?

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Baby will feel want of more than you.

Baby will feel cold much than you.

Above all, baby will suffer more from not being kept clean (only see how it enjoys being washed in ).

Baby will want its clothes and its bed clothes changed than you.

Baby will suffer more from a house than you.

Baby must have to itself; else it runs the risk of being over-laid or suffocated.

Baby must not be too much in bed, nor too little. The same when it is up.

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