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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    Glass bent tube used instead of drinking- cup. of comfort. These little matters should not be over- looked in the treatment of disease. Sometimes a glass tube (medicinal) about eight or nine inches in length, bent at an obtuse angle, will be found better than any drinking-cup, and might be more convenient. It may be obtained at any chemist's shop for a few pence. When the spout of the drinking-cup, from its shortness, entails effort in order to be used, then this may be used to greater advan- tage. It is simply another form of a drinking-cup. The reason why these minute articles are so much enlarged upon here is, that relatives, generally from ignorance, and nurses too (perhaps doctors ought not to be altogether excluded), do not attend to this sufficiently. Figure 11 is a spittoon, and very important when there is expectoration of any kind, for it may be Tthy of commendation. All vessels used for Fig. II. necessary to preserve it un- til the doctor's visit, as he may wish to see its quantity or quality, or otherwise ex- amine it. Those made of earthenware are again most
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