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Disease is a reparative process 7
Of the sufferings of disease; disease
not always the cause
7
What nursing ought to do 8
Nursing the sick little understood 8
Nursing ought to assist the reparative
process
8
Nursing the well little understood 9
Curious deductions from an excessive death rate 9
First rule of nursing to keep the air
within as pure as the air without
11
Why are uninhabited rooms shut
up?
11
Without chill 12
Open windows 13
What kind of warmth desirable 13
Bedrooms almost universally foul 13
An air-test of essential consequence 14
When warmth must be carefully
looked to
14
Cold air not ventilation, nor fresh
air a method of chill
15
Night air. Air from outside. Open
your windows, shut your doors
16
Smoke. Airing damp things in a
patient's room. Effluvia from
exereta
17
Chamber utensils without lids 18
Don't make your sick room into a
sewer
18
Abolish slop pails. Fumigations.
Health of houses—five points essential.
Health of carriages
19
Pure air, pure water 20
Drainage. Sinks 21
Cleanliness. Light 22
Three common errors in managing
the health of houses
22
Head in charge must see to house
hygiene, not do it herself
23
Does God think of these things so
seriously?
23
How does he carry out his laws? 24
How does he teach his laws? 24
Servants' rooms 24
Physical degeneration in families;
its causes. Don't make your sick
room into a ventilating shaft for
the whole house. Infection. Diseases
are not individuals arranged
in classes, like cats and dogs, but
conditions growing out of one
another
25
Why must children have measles,
&c.? Petty management
27
Illustrations of the want of it 28
Strangers coming into sick room 28
Sick room airing the whole house 28
Uninhabited room fouling the
whole house. Lingering smell of
paint a want of care
28
Delivery and non-delivery of letters
and messages
29
Partial messages such as "being always
in the way" yourself, increase
instead of saving the patient's
anxiety, because they must
be only partial. Why let your
patient ever be surprised?
29
What is the cause of half the accidents
which happen?
30
Petty management better understood
in institutions than in private
houses. What institutions
are the exception? Nursing in
regimental hospitals
31
What it is to be "in charge" 32
Why hired nurses give so much
trouble. Unnecessary noise. Never
let a patient be waked out of
his first sleep.
34
Noise which excites expectation 35
Whispered conversation in the
room, or just outside the door
35, 36
Noise of female dress. Patient's
repulsion to nurses who rustle
36
Burning of the crinolines 37
Indecency of the crinolines 37
Hurry peculiarly hurtful to the sick 37
How to visit the sick, and not hurt
them. These things not fancy
38
Interruption damaging to sick and
to well
38, 39
Keeping a patient standing. Patients
dread surprise. Never speak
to a patient in the art of moving
39
Effects of over-exertion of sick 40
Careless observation of the results
of careless visits
40
Difference between real and fancy
patients
41
Conciseness necessary with sick 41
Irresolution most painful to them 42
What a patient must not have to
see to. Reading aloud
42
Read aloud slowly, distinctly, and
steadily to the sick
43
Never read aloud by fits and starts
to the sick. The sick would rather
be told a thing than have it read
to them
43
People overheard. Music 44
Variety a means of recovery 44
Color and form means of recovery;
this is no fancy. Flowers
45
Effects of body and mind 46
Sick suffer to excess from mental as
well as bodily pain. Help the
sick to vary their thoughts
46
Desperate desire in the sick to "see
out of window." Supply to the
sick the defect of manual labor
47
Physical effect of color. Want of attention
to hours of taking food
49
Patients often starved to death in
chronic cases. Food never to be
left by the patient's side. Patient
had better not see more
food than his own.
50
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