Nurse
A nurse kept in the house foretold distressing illness; a nurse leaving, the return of good health. To be the nurse yourself was to earn esteem through self-sacrifice. Care and its need are bound together here. Sometimes the dream asks where healing is still wanted, or where you've been the one quietly tending everyone else.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for nurse, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that a nurse is retained in your home, foretells distressing illness, or unlucky visiting among friends.
To see a nurse leaving your house, omens good health in the family.
For a young woman to dream that she is a nurse, denotes that she will gain the esteem of people, through her self-sacrifice. If she parts from a patient, she will yield to the persuasion of deceit.
Fontaine, 1862
Dreaming of a nurse for lying-in women foreshadows luck and plenty of cash; to a farmer, such a dream prognosticates abundant crops, and to newly married people good crops of children.