...gently with a spoon. But Miss Nightingale does not consider interruption baneful to sick persons only. be accomplished without pain. With the sick, pain gives warning of the injury." Interruption is an evil to the reader which must be estimated very differently from ordinary business...

...indeed," she continues, " applies to the weil quite as much as to the sick. I have never known person* who exposed themselves for years to constant interruption...With the sick, pain gives warning of the injury." Interruption is an evil to the reader which must be estimated very differently from ordinary business...

...persons only. "This rule, indeed," she continues, "applies to the well quite as much as to the sick. / have never known persons who exposed themselves for...With the sick, pain gives warning of the injury." Interruption is an evil to the reader which must be estimated very differently from ordinary business...

...thought, what word-pictures have been destroyed by thoughtless breakings of the chain of sequence ! ' I have never known persons who exposed themselves...did not muddle away their intellects by it at last,' wrote Miss Florence Nightingale. Hamerton, quoting her, is equally emphatic upon this point. ' If,'...

...thought, what word-pictures have been destroyed by thoughtless breakings of the chain of sequence ! ' I have never known persons who exposed themselves...did not muddle away their intellects by it at last,' wrote Miss Florence Nightingale. Hamerton, quoting her, is equally emphatic upon this point. ' If,'...

...thought, what word-pictures have been destroyed by thoughtless breakings of the chain of sequence! ' I have never known persons who exposed themselves...did not muddle away their intellects by it at last,' wrote Miss Florence Nightingale. Hamerton, quoting her, is equally emphatic upon this point. ' If,'...

...thought, what word-pictures have been destroyed by thoughtless breakings of the chain of sequence! ' I have never known persons who exposed themselves...did not muddle away their intellects by it at last,' wrote Miss Florence Nightingale. Hamerton, quoting her, is equally emphatic upon this point. ' If,'...

...their attention, says that the rule applies to the well quite as much as to the sick. She adds : " I have never known persons who exposed themselves for years to constant interruptions who did not muddle away their intellects by it at last." Dr. Arnold seems to be an exception....

...to a sick person suddenly; but, at the same time, do not keep his expectation on the tiptoe. stant interruption who did not muddle away their intellects...pain. With the sick, pain gives warning of the injury. Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him, or to give him any...

...a fanciful" person, as it is called. Alas! it is no fancy.'—Ibid. p. 28. And further we find— ' This rule, indeed, applies to the well quite as much...without pain. "With the sick, pain gives warning of the injury."—Ibid. p. 29. It becomes important to know what it is that constitutes ' interruption' of...