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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    ANTISEPTICS. qualify a disagreeable odour will be a source of en- joyment The nurse, however, must never trust to these Nurse should re- substances by themselves, but have the influence Spurh^' which leads to their use removed. The offensive thincr and the smell, should be removed ; and, no doubt, fresh air is the best disinfectant and deodoriser of all. Every one who has been at all conversant with the sick-room, and watched a patient for four and twenty hours, must have observed that there was decided need for deodorisers, if not disinfectants, even where the strictest attention has been paid to the admission of a plentiful supply of fresh air—and this is as neces- sary to attend to for those in charge as well as Ifor the patient himself If disinfectants were more ljudiciously used, we might hear less of the sick- iroom airing the house; besides, antiseptic substances are useful also for thoroughly cleansing unoccupied rooms and uninhabited houses. The practical method of cleanliness, as now merely iLlineated, although it cannot stop disease, yet it will io much to alleviate the suffering of individual tients under our care, and tend to prolong life, thorough understanding of this subject on the part
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