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You cannot be too careful as to quality in sick diet	51
Nurse must have some rule of thought about her patient's diet. Nurse must have some rule of time about the patient's diet	52
Keep your patient's cup dry underneath. Common errors in diet. Beef tea. Eggs. Meat without vegetables	53
Arrowroot. Milk, butter, cream, &c. Intelligent cravings of particular sick for particular articles of diet	54
Sweet things. Jelly	55
Beef tea. Observation, not chemistry, must decide sick diet	56
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	66
Dust never removed now. How a room is dusted	67
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	l00