Notes on nursing : what it is, and what it is not

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THE following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others. Every woman, or at least almost every woman, in England has, at one time or another of her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid,-in other words, every woman is a nurse. Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. It is recognized as the knowledge which every one ought to have-distinct from medical knowledge, which only a profession can have. If, then, every woman must, at some time or other of her life, become a nurse, i.e., have charge of somebody's health, how immense and how valuable would be the produce of her united experience if every woman would think how to nurse. I do not pretend to teach her how, I ask her to teach her- self, and for this purpose I venture to give her some hints. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGES VENTILATION AND WARMING .... .... 8 HEALTH OF HOUSES .... .... .... .... 14 PETTY MANAGEMENT .... .... .... .... 20 .... 25 NOISE .... .... VARIETY .... .... .... .... .... 33 TAKING FOOD .... .... .... 36 WHAT FOOD ?.... 39 BED AND BEDDING .... .... .... .... 45 LIGHT .... .... .... .... .... 47 CLEANLINESS OF ROOMS AND WALLS .... .... .... 49 PERSONAL CLEANLINESS .... .... .... .... 52 CHATTERING HOPES AND ADVICES .... .... .... 54 OBSERVATION OF THE SICK .... .... .... 59 CONCLUSION .... .... .... ... 71 APPENDIX 77 NOTES ON NUESING: WHAT IT IS, AND WHAT IT IS NOT. SHALL we begin by taking it as a general principle-that all Disease a disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an Process- effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed, the termination of the disease being then, while the antecedent process was going on, determined ? If we accept this as a general principle we shall be immediately met with anecdotes and instances