How to nurse sick children : intended especially as a help to the nurses at the Hospital for Sick Children, but containing directions which may be found of service to all who have the charge of the young.

  • West, Charles, 1816-1898.
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to nurse sick children : intended especially as a help to the nurses at the Hospital for Sick Children, but containing directions which may be found of service to all who have the charge of the young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    ADVERTISEMENT. The British and Foreign Medico-Cuirurgical Review, in its notice of this little work, says, The young mother, or the still younger nurse, is commonly supposed to understand the child's wants and habits intuitively, and the consequence of such intuitive knowledge is, we fear to say how often, the source of a debilitated constitution or death to the child, anguish and a murmuring spirit to the parent. Nor is the blame to be laid solely at the door of the young mother or the child, but rather at the door of those who, with knowledge at their command, have failed to communicate it. Whoever it [the book] was written by, the author brings to hi.s task the two great qualifications—a thorough love of children, and a thorough knowledge of their habits in health and disease. It is a simple but feeling account of the wants of the sick child, and of the duties required of its attendant.