Notes on Nursing

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Florence Nightingale. Notes on Nursing

Notes on Nursing

Table of Content

Introduction

I. Ventilation and Warming

II.—Health of Houses 7

III. Petty Management

IV. Noise

V. Variety

VI. Taking Food

VII. What Food?

VIII. Bed and Bedding

IX. Light

X. Cleanliness of Rooms and Walls

XI. Personal Cleanliness

XII. Chattering Hopes and Advices

XIII. Observation of the Sick

Conclusion

Footnotes

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Florence Nightingale

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Oh, mothers of families! You who say this, do you know that one in every seven infants in this civilized land of England perishes before it is one year old? That, in London, two in every five die before they are five years old? And, in the other great cities of England, nearly one out of two?1 "The life duration of tender babies" (as some Saturn, turned analytical chemist, says) "is the most delicate test" of sanitary conditions. Is all this premature suffering and death necessary? Or did Nature intend mothers to be always accompanied by doctors? Or is it better to learn the piano-forte than to learn the laws which subserve the preservation of offspring?

Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

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