The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro.

  • Munro, Aeneas.
Date:
1873
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Credit: The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    being cleaned, or the doors opened for the purpose of ventilation, when it should be observed that the curtain on one side of the bed only should be drawn at a time. They will also prove useful in shading the patient from the direct influence of strong light, which Occasionally IS intolerant in the case of invalids. The different become us^e'^ bars and posts of the bed may from time to time -be fuI. of great service, and the ingenuity of the nurse, and sometimes the sick persons themselves, will find out how these can be best taken advantage of. For instance, a person who is suffering from pain, and having severe attacks of breathlessness, will find it very advantageous to hold the rod at the head of the bed, for he not only finds that it momentarily relieves him, but he is thus enabled to turn himself or change his position with greater ease. If there is no small bed, as pointed out, a sofa in some convenient part of the room is exceedingly useful, for if the patient is physically able he should be removed to it for a period more or less in duration according to his strength. It is the duty of the person in charge to consider which part of the room the sick person ought to be placed, so as to secure safety and pleasure: whether or not it would be
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