South Highland Infirmary School of Nursing - Nightingale Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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The Nightingale Senior Class Nineteen Eleven 'E' 3- ' 5' A Q .AN Volume One The South Highland Infirmary

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IKOBERTS S Sox. Primers .md Binder Birmingham. AIA.

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5 lnspiration Inspiration, they say, comes not from body nor mind. It is a thing intangible, transitory, which has nominal residence in a corner of the soul, and lights the whole being. It comes by no command and yields only to influences which, like itself, are not of the earth. Its presence puts genius into the hand of man and he begins to create. Sometimes it is an immortal paintingg sometimes a sequence of words and ideas Which, merging, make an epicg sometimes a group of sounds which ,cause the soul to ache from excess of harmonious beauty, and sometimes an institution which is the Samaritan to all who suffer. V And mankind is given to suffering. The arm that strikes may from that very ehfort become palsiedg the eyes that pierce the walls of unborn time may suddenly become dark 3, the limbs that stalk firmly through to-day's l:attles may weaken to-morrow from the strain. Therefore, it is for those who have not felt the blighting touch of the original sin to offer ministrations. :Xnd such ministra- tions comprise the most sublime genius. Born of that kind of inspiration was the South Highland In- firmary. This idea took its present definite shape October 18th, 1910, The members of this band of workers, who now stand riveted to- gether like hoops of steel, knew well the laws of physic, and they 4 had before ministered to the sufferings of many. hut under the spcil of a different power. Since the establishment of this modern and splendidlv ednippefi house of healing, the institution has become vested with -will-gtlllll more than the work-a-day routine to its physicians and nurses. lf guiding hands and heads are moved hy something hroader and l.1 fer X NF and better than the mere completion of the task in hand. The white-capped ministers to suffering look uncozzs .. yond the individual. They feel that in relieving pain and rest health they have touched a whole line-have ailded anotner .fic the chain of Lifes happiness and have detracted just that mit ' ff! suffering and from sin. an They unconsciously feel that they have experiezicei an :qyaaev remaining color to stand hack only when that lligher 'Q ,ii ing-that the same inspiration which hr- iught them into exfsietc in 5 breathes and moves about them. directing each touch. 5-1 ding if: ' l suggestion. They are soldiers. hut their ff-e is 11411 --:ze that t t and shell. Theirs is no hurrah of attack-no martin t X ' they do not retreat. Down to the gateway that leads from Illia Iife to .. i :Tw , l .'- go, following each flicker of weakening pulse. tltlTS: Q ear' s' l creed that the task is t'llc7't'tf. . 1'- i l l I E 1