 of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food. This want of attention is as remarkable in those who urge upon the sick to do what is quite impossible to them, as in the sick themselves who will not make...  Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not - Page 63by Florence Nightingale - 1860 - 140 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Valentine Mott Francis - 1859 - 248 pages
...observer of the sick will agree in this that thousands of patients are annually starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food." She asserts truly that the fault lies as much with the attendants as with the patients. The proper... | |
 | Florence Nightingale - Nursing - 1861 - 280 pages
...observer of the sick will agree in this, that thousands of patients are annually starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which...the sick themselves, who will not make the effort to take what is perfectly possible to them. Agnjn, a nurse is ordered to give a patient a tea-cupful of... | |
 | Mrs. Beeton (Isabella Mary) - Confectionery - 1861 - 568 pages
...be fresh and natural. 2427. "Patients," says Miss Nightingale, "are sometimes starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food. A spoonful of beef-tea, or arrowroot and vine, or some other light nourishing diet, should be given... | |
 | Isabella Mary Beeton - 1863 - 1194 pages
...bo fresh and natural. 2427. "Patients," says Miss Nightingale, "are sometimes starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food. A spoonful of beef-tea, or arrowroot and wine, or some other light nourishing diet, should bo given... | |
 | 1866 - 418 pages
...midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which alone nrnko it possible for them to tike food. This want of attention is as remarkable in those...the effort to do what is perfectly possible to them. For instance, to the large majority of very \\v vk patients it is quite impossible to toko any solid... | |
 | Isabella Mary Beeton - 1873 - 112 pages
...be fresh and natural. 2427. "Patients," says Miss Nightingale, "are sometimes starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention- to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food. A spoonful of beef-tea, or arrowroot and wine, or some other light nourishing diet, should be given... | |
 | Catherine Ryan - Cookery for the sick - 1881 - 216 pages
...from her. Miss Nightingale says that there are thousands of patients annually starved in the midst of plenty from want of attention to the ways which...the sick themselves, who will not make the effort to take what is perfectly possible to them. For instance, to most very weak patients it 14 CONVALESCENT... | |
 | Massachusetts Medical Society - 1892 - 984 pages
...observer of the sick will agree that many patients are starved in the midst of plenty, simply from the want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food. For example, if the patient has a fever with remissions or intermissions, it is of the first importance... | |
 | Medicine - 1891 - 748 pages
...observer of the sick will agree that many patients are starved in the midst of plenty, simply from the want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food. For example, if the patient has a fever with remissions or intermissions, it is of the first imponaaeeun... | |
 | Kathy Cope - 1998 - 94 pages
..."Every-careful observer of the sick will agree in this that thousands of patients are starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food." — Florence Nightingale "The body's decline is due not to the passing of years, but to the combined... | |
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