Hints for the Sick Room.

Otago Witness, Issue 2569, 10 June 1903, Page 70

Hints for the Sick Room.

THE NCRSE's XEVEH. Never tako the temperature in the armpit until you are Mire tho skin id diy. Never neglect to chart tho temperature as scon as you have- taktei it. Never allow the patisnt to take the temperature hims?lf. Many patients are more knowing thai* nurses where there uj a question of temperature. Never use anything but a graduated measure for measuring dose* of medicine, unless ordered to administer the dosee in drops. Never put a hot wattr bottle next to tho skin. Its efficicmoy and the patient's safety are both enhanced by surrounding the bottle with flannel. Never comp'siln that you cannot gc-fc a feeding cup if there is a teapot to be. had m.sfca'l. Never administer a quantity of food to a patient until you liave found out if he> can 6v. a'iow. Never disregard a patient's intelligent ci\uirg for particular articles of c'.iot. Never uso your patient as a thermometer for estimating tho temperature of the bath. Never allow a patient to be wakenod oufc of his first t-teop Never imagine that a paiient who during the day will not, .sleep during the> night. Tho more he sleeps the hotter will h© bo ab'-o to sloop. Never hurry or bustle. Never stand rn<\ fklge-t when a sick pcre^ii is talking to you. Sit down. Never sit whcie jour prtient cannot sco you. Never requiro a patient to repeat a menage or reque-t. Attend at onco. Never judpe tho con('iUon of your patient from his an pen rat' re dining a convii itioii. Sec how he kcks an hour afterwai\l?. Xover read a fiery to children if you can tc-il it. Nc\rr read feist to a sick person. The wsy to maLe a c tory seem short is to tell it Oonly. yc\er play tho piano to a sick person if yon cm play on stiings or nng. Ne\cr cfiiifluo ;i patient to one room if y.iu can obtain tho vi?e of iwo. Never alow nienctony in a\yth ; ng. Ncvr t>]]ov. too n.uch varie-ty. — Troy Daily rrcra.

Food Fadi! ; ite — A corrr,pordont WTitos to Soe.ety on "Food FniKiists " : — "Smely there n^ver wns a tui'e when fad*? in feed were co carefully cultivated and civnesily stud. eel a-; they are at present. One. nnn abjurv all brT.k?nft. rind tries to get hi 1 ? friends to abolish tho morning baenn anel e^c,' quit<% cs oarncqtly as another H,ttcmpts to ban>=h lurch from the daily menu; v.h !» a tl.ird fonr.' a Jfa^i"> n^.tin^t "Upper: n f<-':rth de-ires ie .-o" all foeli r-.frrt jiu'^c nn tc , and fnnv fcrbiildon tho ta' 1 !'- ; ar.'l a fifth pin=s hi- f.iiih to pre-diirr«-t-<l crricntinli'd f(,cd-i and tablets. Al'il^vs cf patent f( cdi claim to patcrm miraclci, of rejuvc". liion OtliPis prove, by means of p ; i torial rd\ orti'emeiils, that n"hodv's diifc-ti\o appari til's 's really cap-able-of dealing sptisfact-only with chons anel hat tor puddings, and that, tho popular delusion to tho contr.uy i» fdline eurlv graves in every cemetery. The cheerful, comlnonnlaoo animal v. ho eati; exactly what his landlady, his cook, or hi. c re c taui-snt chocee^ t-o p'vr. him. r.aid thiivci- inrui an appnrftnt conglorr.e-ration of d"at'lv poisrrii, should hanjr hi- head in i-hame ; but .--om^how orotlur hf do^s no f . On the contrary', it i' iust. this fOiVoned. fatiafcd. yet Tiidcr-'iouripliPel; Ikmkt who does all the real work of the world He spend* long d?v in crowded court*, he woiks fourtcr-'i houiv out of twe:.tv-fouv at a busy modic-al pracfico, ho command-! «hins, ,-nd nms engines, anel builds bridges, he breakt vicious horses, ancl 1 manages big estate And the. devotee of tho tensroon and table-scales, who can prove to vnu (on paper) that hp i^ creating prrey matter in liis l>i'ah> at le-ast t'irlec as fast as the vnltrar fp°'ler alicvp- de c ciilj"d, and vrn<s\vui7 liis ycut'i with ■every mral. scmohow rr othrr ne\ c-r rrr.lly manage^ to 'gefc thcio.' "

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