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Page 7 - It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick, that second only to their need of fresh air is their need of light...
Page 7 - 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 tiptoe, doing anything in the room very slowly, are injurious, for exactly the same reasons.
Page 6 - The very first canon of nursing, the first and the last thing upon which a nurse's attention must be fixed, the first essential to the patient, without which all the rest you can do for him is as nothing, with which I had almost said you may leave all the rest alone, is this: TO KEEP THE AIR HE BREATHES AS PURE AS THE EXTERNAL AIR, WITHOUT CHILLING HIM.
Page 8 - It is after it is over. Indeed, almost every effect of over-exertion appears after, not during such exertion. It is the highest folly to judge of the sick, as is so often done, when you see them merely during a period of excitement.
Page 12 - ... and the functions of the skin seriously interrupted. Therefore, it is a matter of great importance to all who value their health to keep the skin in a healthy condition, for when this is not the case, double duty is imposed upon the lungs, kidneys and bowels, and disease is almost certain to follow. Directions for Taking a Bath Every bath should be taken while the body is warm and the circulation somewhat accelerated. For this reason, it is better to take a walk, or some other exercise, before...
Page 7 - ... negligences and ignorances" in performing it. Light 5. A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth, and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill they cannot get well again in it. More will be said about this farther on. Three common errors in managing the health of houses Three out of many "negligences and ignorances...
Page 6 - With a proper supply of windows and a proper supply of fuel in open fireplaces, fresh air is comparatively easy to secure when your patient or patients are in bed. Never be afraid of open windows then. People don't catch cold in bed — this is a popular fallacy. With proper bedclothes and hot bottles, if necessary, you can always keep a patient warm in bed, and well ventilate him at the same time.
Page 9 - English sick for their tea, you cannot but feel that Nature knows what she is about. But a little tea or coffee restores them quite as much as a great deal; and a great deal of tea, and especially of coffee, impairs the little power of digestion they have. Yet a nurse, because she sees how one or two cups of tea or coffee restores her patient, thinks that three or four cups will do twice as much.
Page 22 - To conclude that, if exercise is good, the more violent it is the more is done. To imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained. To act on the presumption that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in. To argue that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better is good for the system without regard to more ulterior effects.
Page 8 - Ib. of meat. But this is not the whole question or nearly the whole. The main question is what the patient's stomach can assimilate or derive nourishment from, and of this the patient's stomach is the sole judge. Chemistry cannot tell this. The patient's stomach must be its...