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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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