39 Metaphors for nurses

The child, then, under all the foregoing circumstances, must be provided with its support from another source, and a wet-nurse is the best.

In this case a young and healthy wet-nurse is the best substitute; but even this resource is not always attainable.

Titus, Vespasian's son, was therefore sickly, because the nurse was so, Lampridius.

In a house where great preparation was going on for the occasion, by getting the candles fixed in tin sconces, an old nurse of the family, looking on, exclaimed, "Ay, it's a braw time for the cannel-makers when the king is sick, honest man!"

A monthly nurse should be between 30 and 50 years of age, sufficiently old to have had a little experience, and yet not too old or infirm to be able to perform various duties requiring strength and bodily vigour.

After this the soothsayers accused the daughters nurse of the deceased lady, which nurse was a Christian, and wife to the chief of the Nestorian priests.

"I am English, my wife's Irish, the nurse is Scotch and the baby wails.

The APOTHECARIES would find their medicines cost them something: but the demand for quantities would answer that: since the honest NURSE would be the patient's taster; perpetually requiring repetitions of the last cordial julap.

A boy, in his youth living over again the history of his progenitors, escapes his nurse to become an adventurer.

Trained nurses, for example, were uncommonly well-informed and agreeable young women, when you came to know themand quite lady-like, too, for all that in our topsy-turvy days these girls had to work for their living.

The Milesian wet-nurse is only a convenient vessel through which the American infant gets the life-blood of this virgin soil, Sir, that is making man over again, on the sunset pattern!

The nurses were mainly local subjects who had to undergo an adequate training, and there was no one who did not confidently predict a rapid fall in the infant mortality rate which, to the shame of the Turkish administration, was fully a dozen times that of the highest of English towns.

As only male patients were received, the nurses and attendants were all men; for the treatment needed more firmness and sometimes strength than gentleness.

The invalid mother would form the pathetic, the silly exclamations of the servants the ludicrous, and the nurse was nature itself.

on'y 'e wanted her to nurse 'is wife and children, and when she came and laid up and wanted waiting on 'e couldn't dislike her enough.

A nurse who rustles (I am speaking of nurses professional and unprofessional) is the horror of a patient, though perhaps he does not know why.

NURSE It was old Mrs. Daniels who woke first at the sound of scratching and growling.

Negresses suckle them when they are infants, their nurses are negresses, their attendants are negressesand I have often seen girls of eight or ten years of age taken to school, or any other place, by young negroes.

" As she spoke she smiled, like an intelligent woman who feels that those who give their services as wet nurses to bourgeois families are simply fools and dupes.

I think the nurse was a full hour bathing and dressing my firstborn, who protested with a melancholy wail every blessed minute.

" "What did Rachel say?" "She said the nurse was an impostor, and declared it was only a plot to get possession of Ida; but then, that was to be expected of Aunt Rachel.

He turned and perceived that the nurse and not himself must be the object of this regard.

The doctor insisted that a nurse was an immediate necessity, and James Horton, Densil's devoted servant and head keeper, suggested his wife, Norah; a proposal that had the doctor's immediate approval.

To cure derangement of the bowels from this cause, a wet-nurse is the only remedy.

"His nurse is Juanita.

39 Metaphors for  nurses