VARIETY 33
TAKING FOOD 36
WHAT FOOD? 39
BED AND BEDDING 45
LIGHT 47
CLEANLINESS OF ROOMS AND WALLS 49
PERSONAL CLEANLINESS 52
CHATTERING HOPES AND ADVICES 54
OBSERVATION OF THE SICK 59
CONCLUSION 71
APPENDIX 77




NOTES ON NURSING:

WHAT IT IS, AND WHAT IT IS NOT.


[Sidenote: Disease a reparative process.]

Shall we begin by taking it as a general principle--that all disease, at
some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative
process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature
to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place
weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed, the termination of
the disease being then, while the antecedent process was going on,
determined?