"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 I can only hope that it is not true. What? is the bed already saturated with someone else's damp before my patient comes to exhale in it his own damp? Has it not had a chance to be aired? No, not one. 'It has been slept in every night.'" pg. 81

"I do not pretend to teach her how, I ask her to teach herself, and for this purpose I venture to give her some hints." pg. 4

"The reparative process which Nature has instituted and which we call disease, has been hindered by some want of knowledge or attention, in one or in all of these things, and pain, suffering, or interruption of the whole process sets in." pg. 8

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