Notes on Nursing / What It Is, and What It Is Not

To KEEP THE AIR HE BREATHES AS PURE AS THE EXTERNAL AIR, WITHOUT CHILLING HIM. Y

In her chapter entitled “Chattering Hopes and Advices”

incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different—of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet,

And the parents immediately run over in their minds all the families with whom they may have been.

There are other ways of having filth inside a house besides having dirt in heaps

they are very apt to commit all kinds of "negligences and ignorances" in performing it.

first elementary notion of sanitary things, and laying the ground ready for all kinds of diseases.

Effluvia from excreta.

doubtful benefit to society when it leads people to look abroad for the source of evils which exist at home.

where" the children can have "caught" the disease?