If it is a whispered conversation in the same room, then it is absolutely cruel ; for it is impossible that the patient's attention should not be involuntarily strained to hear. Walking on tip-toe, doing anything in the room very slowly, are injurious,... Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is Not - Page 45by Florence Nightingale - 1898 - 140 pagesFull view - About this book
| Medicine - 1859 - 940 pages
...door." Whispering. — " If it is a whispered conversation in the same room, then it is absolutely cruel; for it is impossible that the patient's attention...involuntarily strained to hear. Walking on tip-toe, doing anything in the room very slowly, are injurious, for exactly the same reasons. A firm, light, quick... | |
| Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 380 pages
...of herself than are to be gained from any other source, as the two following illustrations show. " A firm, light, quick step, a steady, quick hand, are...slow, lingering, shuffling foot, the timid, uncertain hand. Slowness is not gentleness, though it is often mistaken for such. Quickness, lightness, and gentleness... | |
| Clinton S. Halsey, George E. Halsey - Homeopathic veterinary medicine - 1885 - 390 pages
...rickets, etc., among the children. QUIET. — Whispered conversation in the same room is absolutely cruel, for it is impossible that the patient's attention...involuntarily strained to hear. Walking on tiptoe, doing anything in the room very slowly, are injurious for exactly the same reasons. A firm, light, quick... | |
| John Milton Scudder - 1895 - 940 pages
...not 'worse for hours after. If it is a whispered conversation in the same room, then it is absolutely cruel ; for it is impossible that the patient's attention...involuntarily strained to hear. Walking on tip-toe, doing anything in the room very slowly, are injurious, for exactly the same reasons. A firm, light, quick... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1898 - 460 pages
...patient than much louder noises which are decided and undisguised ; ' walking on tip-toe, doing anything in the room very slowly, are injurious for exactly the same reasons.' ' These remarks,' adds Bucknill, ' which would appear as novel as they are excellent, have, however,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1898 - 456 pages
...patient than much louder noises which are decided and undisguised ; ' walking on tip-toe, doing anything in the room very slowly, are injurious for exactly the same reasons.' ' These remarks,' adds Bucknill, ' which would appear as novel as they are excellent, have, however,... | |
| Electronic journals - 1907 - 970 pages
..." Walking on tiptoe, doing anything in the room very slowly, are injurious (ie, in the sick room). A firm, light, quick step, a steady, quick hand are...timid, uncertain touch. Slowness is not gentleness, thougli it is often mistaken for such ; quickness, lightness, and gentleness are quite compatible."... | |
| Florence Nightingale - Medical - 1992 - 184 pages
...not worse for hours after. If it is a whispered conversation in the game room, then it is absolutely cruel ; for it is impossible that the patient's attention...same reasons. A firm light quick step, a steady quick band are the desiderata ; not the slow, lingering, shuffling foot, the timid, uncertain touch. Slowness... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 448 pages
...patient than much louder noises which are decided and undisguised; ' walking on tip-toe, doing anything in the room very slowly, are injurious for exactly the same reasons.' ' These remarks,' adds Bucknill, ' which would appear as novel as they are excellent, have, however,... | |
| Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 724 pages
...not worse for hours after. If it is a whispered conversation in the same room, then it is absolutely cruel, for it is impossible that the patient's attention...involuntarily strained to hear. Walking on tiptoe, doing anything in the room very slowly, are injurious, for exactly the same reasons. A firm light quick step,... | |
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