Enhancing one’s overall knowledge –-> spiritual, physical, intellectual, and emotional

God’s glorious handiwork

To “discern with the eye of oneness His [God’s] glorious handiwork, and look into all things with a searching eye.” - Baha'u'llah (‘Tablets of Baha'u'llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)

Question: Is it true that towards the end of the 18th century nursing was considered an unsuitable occupation for “proper” young women? How so? What events in the United States established the need for more nurses in both military and civilian life?