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baby's bed-room beef tea better body breathing bronchitis called calomel careful nursing careless nurse carpet CHATTERING HOPES child chill chink cholera clean cleanliness clothes cold convalescence damp danger death diarrhoea diet dirt dirty doctor door draught dust dying expectoration experience experienced nurse feel feet feet washed fever fire floor foul air fresh air friends furniture give habit hard water heard HOPES AND ADVICES hot bottles invalid keep kind King's College Hospital known leading question light medicine midwifery MINDING BABY morning mother musty necessary never night observant nurse open window organic disease patient perhaps perspiration pillows poor probationers pulse quinine remember requires rubbed scarlet fever shut sick person sick room skin sleep smell soap suffering tell things tion told VENTILATION AND WARMING warmth washed watched woman women workhouse