‘Pray, have you thought about that emigration proposal of mine?’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Such experiments in perception and attention, association and memory, repeatedly demanded of yourself— i. e. , the being able to recall and describe in detail the room- or ward-arrangements and to place the patients accurately, as we have just described—will prove invaluable practice, helping you to attend to every change in your patient’s demeanor and expression, which may prove significant symptoms.
— from Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter