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| Disease is a reparative process
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Of the sufferings of disease; disease
not always the cause
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7
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| What nursing ought to do
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8
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| Nursing the sick little understood
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8
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Nursing ought to assist the reparative
process
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8
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| Nursing the well little understood
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9
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| Curious deductions from an excessive death rate
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9
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First rule of nursing to keep the air
within as pure as the air without
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Why are uninhabited rooms shut
up?
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11
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| Without chill
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| Open windows
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| What kind of warmth desirable
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| Bedrooms almost universally foul
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| An air-test of essential consequence
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When warmth must be carefully
looked to
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Cold air not ventilation, nor fresh
air a method of chill
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Night air. Air from outside. Open
your windows, shut your doors
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Smoke. Airing damp things in a
patient's room. Effluvia from
exereta
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| Chamber utensils without lids
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Don't make your sick room into a
sewer
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Abolish slop pails. Fumigations.
Health of houses—five points essential.
Health of carriages
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| Pure air, pure water
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| Drainage. Sinks
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| Cleanliness. Light
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Three common errors in managing
the health of houses
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Head in charge must see to house
hygiene, not do it herself
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Does God think of these things so
seriously?
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| How does he carry out his laws?
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| How does he teach his laws?
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| Servants' rooms
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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
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Why must children have measles,
&c.? Petty management
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| Illustrations of the want of it
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| Strangers coming into sick room
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| Sick room airing the whole house
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Uninhabited room fouling the
whole house. Lingering smell of
paint a want of care
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Delivery and non-delivery of letters
and messages
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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?
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What is the cause of half the accidents
which happen?
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Petty management better understood
in institutions than in private
houses. What institutions
are the exception? Nursing in
regimental hospitals
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| What it is to be "in charge"
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Why hired nurses give so much
trouble. Unnecessary noise. Never
let a patient be waked out of
his first sleep.
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| Noise which excites expectation
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Whispered conversation in the
room, or just outside the door
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Noise of female dress. Patient's
repulsion to nurses who rustle
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| Burning of the crinolines
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| Indecency of the crinolines
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| Hurry peculiarly hurtful to the sick
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How to visit the sick, and not hurt
them. These things not fancy
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Interruption damaging to sick and
to well
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Keeping a patient standing. Patients
dread surprise. Never speak
to a patient in the art of moving
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| Effects of over-exertion of sick
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Careless observation of the results
of careless visits
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Difference between real and fancy
patients
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| Conciseness necessary with sick
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| Irresolution most painful to them
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What a patient must not have to
see to. Reading aloud
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Read aloud slowly, distinctly, and
steadily to the sick
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Never read aloud by fits and starts
to the sick. The sick would rather
be told a thing than have it read
to them
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| People overheard. Music
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| Variety a means of recovery
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Color and form means of recovery;
this is no fancy. Flowers
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| Effects of body and mind
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Sick suffer to excess from mental as
well as bodily pain. Help the
sick to vary their thoughts
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Desperate desire in the sick to "see
out of window." Supply to the
sick the defect of manual labor
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Physical effect of color. Want of attention
to hours of taking food
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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.
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