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 * You cannot be too careful as to quality in sick diet
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 * Nurse must have some rule of thought about her patient's diet. Nurse must have some rule of time about the patient's diet
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 * Keep your patient's cup dry underneath. Common errors in diet. Beef tea. Eggs. Meat without vegetables
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 * Arrowroot. Milk, butter, cream, &c. Intelligent cravings of particular sick for particular articles of diet
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 * Sweet things. Jelly
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 * Beef tea. Observation, not chemistry, must decide sick diet
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 * Home-made bread. Sound observation has scarcely yet been brought to bear on sick diet
 * 57
 * Tea and coffee. Cocoa
 * 58, 59
 * Bulk. Feverishness a symptom of bedding. Uncleanliness of ordinary bedding. Nurses often do not think the sick room any business of theirs, but only the sick
 * 60
 * Air your dirty sheets, not only your clean ones
 * 61
 * Iron spring bedsteads the best. Comfort and cleanliness of two beds. Bed not to be too wide
 * 62
 * Bed not to be too high, nor in a dark place, nor a four-poster with curtains. Scrofula often a result of disposition of bed clothes. Bed sores. Heavy and impervious bed clothes
 * 63
 * Light essential to both health and recovery
 * 64
 * Aspect, view, and sunlight, matters of first importance to the sick
 * 65
 * Without sunlight, we degenerate body and mind. Almost all patients lie with their faces to the light. Cleanliness of carpets and furniture
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 * Dust never removed now. How a room is dusted
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 * Floors. Papered, plastered, oil-painted walls. Atmosphere in painted and papered rooms quite distinguishable. Best kind of wall for a sick room. How to keep your wall clean at the expense of your clothes
 * 68
 * Dirty air from without. Best kind of wall for a house. Dirty air from within. Dirty air from the carpet. Remedies
 * 69
 * Poisoning by the skin
 * 70
 * Ventilation and skin-cleanliness equally essential
 * 71
 * Steaming and rubbing the skin. Advising the sick
 * 72
 * Chattering hopes the bane of the sick
 * 73
 * Patient does not want to talk of himself. Absurd statistical comparisons made in common, conversation by the most sensible people for the benefit of the sick. Absurd consolations put forth for the benefit of the sick
 * 74
 * Wonderful presumption of the advisers of the sick. Advisers the same now as two hundred years ago. Mockery of the advice given to sick
 * 76
 * Means of giving pleasure to the sick
 * 77
 * Two new classes of patients peculiar to this generation. What is the use of the question, Is he better?
 * 79
 * Leading questions useless or misleading
 * 81
 * Means of obtaining inaccurate information
 * 82
 * As to food patient takes or does not take
 * 83
 * As to diarrhœa. More important to spare the patient thought than physical exertion. Means of cultivating sound and ready observation
 * 83, 84
 * Sound and ready observation essential in a nurse
 * 85
 * English women have great capacity of, but little practice in, close observation
 * 86
 * Difference of excitable and accumulative temperaments. Superstition the fruit of bad observation. Physiognomy of disease little shown by the face
 * 87
 * Peculiarities of patients. Nurse must observe for herself increase of patient's weakness; patient will not tell her. Accidents arising from the nurse's want of observation
 * 89
 * Is the faculty of observing on the decline? Observation of general conditions. Approach of death; paleness by no means an invariable effect, as we find in novels
 * 90
 * "Average rate of mortality" tells us only that so many per cent, will die. Observation must tell us which in the hundred they will be who will die
 * 93
 * What observation is for. What a confidential nurse should be
 * 94
 * Observation is for practical purposes. Sanitary nursing as essential in surgical as in medical cases, but not to supersede surgical nursing
 * 95
 * Children: their greater susceptibility to the same things
 * 96
 * Summary. Reckless amateur physicking by women. Real knowledge of the laws of health alone can check this. Danger of physicking by amateur females
 * 98
 * What pathology teaches. What observation alone teaches. What medicine does. What nature alone does
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 * Means of obtaining inaccurate information
 * 82
 * As to food patient takes or does not take
 * 83
 * As to diarrhœa. More important to spare the patient thought than physical exertion. Means of cultivating sound and ready observation
 * 83, 84
 * Sound and ready observation essential in a nurse
 * 85
 * English women have great capacity of, but little practice in, close observation
 * 86
 * Difference of excitable and accumulative temperaments. Superstition the fruit of bad observation. Physiognomy of disease little shown by the face
 * 87
 * Peculiarities of patients. Nurse must observe for herself increase of patient's weakness; patient will not tell her. Accidents arising from the nurse's want of observation
 * 89
 * Is the faculty of observing on the decline? Observation of general conditions. Approach of death; paleness by no means an invariable effect, as we find in novels
 * 90
 * "Average rate of mortality" tells us only that so many per cent, will die. Observation must tell us which in the hundred they will be who will die
 * 93
 * What observation is for. What a confidential nurse should be
 * 94
 * Observation is for practical purposes. Sanitary nursing as essential in surgical as in medical cases, but not to supersede surgical nursing
 * 95
 * Children: their greater susceptibility to the same things
 * 96
 * Summary. Reckless amateur physicking by women. Real knowledge of the laws of health alone can check this. Danger of physicking by amateur females
 * 98
 * What pathology teaches. What observation alone teaches. What medicine does. What nature alone does
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 * Observation is for practical purposes. Sanitary nursing as essential in surgical as in medical cases, but not to supersede surgical nursing
 * 95
 * Children: their greater susceptibility to the same things
 * 96
 * Summary. Reckless amateur physicking by women. Real knowledge of the laws of health alone can check this. Danger of physicking by amateur females
 * 98
 * What pathology teaches. What observation alone teaches. What medicine does. What nature alone does
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 * What pathology teaches. What observation alone teaches. What medicine does. What nature alone does
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