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

  • Munro, Aeneas.
Date:
1873
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    have (if the frugal wife has not already) laid a piece or pieces of waxcloth, which will most effectu- ally prevent injury in the way supposed. The carpet is useful in being most convenient, comfortable, and will be best for purposes of quietness, all of which are important, but sometimes specially so. What could we substitute for the carpets which are used in our sick-rooms It is argued that hospital success depends to some extent on cleanliness, from the fact that they have no carpets on the floor and no paper on the walls, and that in private it should be the same. Now, this is a mistake; carpeted floors and papered walls are useful if properly kept. It is no substitute to take away the carpet and have the floor bare ; no patient can be treated better by doing so, and it may be said that it would probably tend to the reverse. Tiling There is lately in London, and some country process. mansions, a substitute for carpets found in a process of tiling, but this cannot become general in this climate, because unsuitable. Tiling, whether it be with wood or stone, has insurmountable objections, and the carpeting system will answer every purpose quite as well as anything else, and even more so. If
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