Snooze by Michael McGirr

Author:Michael McGirr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

My heart always sinks within me when I hear the good housewife, of every class, say, “I assure you the bed has been well slept in,” and one can only hope it is not true. What? Is the bed already saturated with somebody else’s damp before my patient comes to exhale into it his own damp? Has it not had a single chance to be aired? No, not one. “It has been slept in every night.”

In Notes on Nursing, Nightingale describes patients as “entirely, or almost entirely, prisoners to bed.” By the time she wrote these words, she was herself in bed. Nightingale had left the Crimean War in mid-1856, at the age of thirty-six. She died in 1910 at the age of ninety. In those fifty-four years, she made no public appearances, gave no interviews, and did all in her power to extinguish her celebrity. The lady with the lamp became an even more shadowy figure. She spent almost all her time in bed. Her bed became a place of refuge, if not safety: there was one occasion in which, lying in bed, a cistern fell onto her through the ceiling.

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