more? 84. What will you have learned at school? 85. In private nursing, what may you expect from the patient's friends? 86. How can you be sure that everything is properly done in your absence? Are you still responsible? 87. Are you at liberty to leave a case at any time? 88. If you have not sufficient help, what should you do? 89. Are you bound to stay with a case indefinitely? For how long? 90. To what is a nurse especially bound by honor? 91. Is the obligation the less because tacit? 92. Should the case of one patient ever be used for the entertainment of another? 93. How can you amuse your patient? 94. Should there be any difference made in the treatment of hospital patients? 95. Are you equally bound to honor and fidelity?

CHAPTER II.-1. Upon what does the comfort of the invalid largely depend? 2. What provision for illness is it desirable to have in every house? 3. Will a nurse always-or often-find her patient in suitable surroundings? 4. If not, how can she remedy the matter? 5. Of what use is it for her to know what a perfect sick-room should be, since she can rarely secure it? 6. What are the characteristics of a model sick-room? 7. For what reasons is space important? 8. On which side of the house should the sick-room be? Why? 9. Is light always a desideratum? Give exceptions. 10. How many windows should there be, and of what kind? 11. What are to be guarded against in the admission of light? 12. In what part of the house would you prefer the sick-room? 13. What advantages has the upper part? What disadvantages? 14. How can you avoid jarring the room? 15. How would you treat stationary basins? 16. What should there be adjoining the sick-room? 17. What should be kept in it? 18. What is said of the custom of keeping medical appliances about the sick-room? 19. When should they be scen? 20. Are plants and flowers allowable? 21. What care must be given them? 22. What can be done to make the sick-room cheerful? 23. What kind of walls are best? 24. What objection to whitewash? To paper? 25. What is scrupulously to be avoided? 26. What kind of curtains would you have? 27. Is a carpet desirable? What is better? 28. Why are all woolen materials objectionable? 29. How can you keep a carpet clean? 30. What are the essential furnishings of a sick-room? 31. How might you improvise a screen? 32. What may take the place of a table for the patient? 33. What kind of wood-work should there be? 34. Why is it especially important to have everything about the room in good repair? 35. What can be done toward keeping the room quiet? 36. Why is

this important? 37. How can you put coal on the fire without disturbing the patient? 38. What sound should never be heard in the sickroom? How avoid it? 39. What kind of noise is most trying to the nerves? 40. What points are to be observed in speaking to your patient? 41. Upon what does good nursing largely depend? 42. Is anything to be considered trivial in the sick-room? 43. What will a good nurse be willing to do for her patient? 44. Is housework a part of her duty? 45. Can the limits of her work be defined? 46. To what must she adapt herself? 47. What will she do where there is insufficient service? 48. Is this often the case? 49. How do the difficulties in private nursing compare with those of hospital work? 50. What simplifies the latter? 51. Give an outline of the ordinary work in a hospital ward. 52. How far is the head nurse responsible for the conduct of the ward? 53. Is any help to be looked for from the patients? 54. What is to be done in the wards before the doctor's visit? 55. Whose duty is it to attend the doctors during rounds? 56. What questions must the nurse in charge be prepared to answer? 57. What else has she to do? 58. What are the other nurses doing during rounds? 59. What is to be done after rounds? 60. Where should the nurses spend their hour off duty? 61. Tell what is to be done when a new patient is admitted. 62. Why is it advised to take the pulse and temperature twice? 63. To whom is the night nurse responsible? 64. Are her duties more or less important than those of the day nurses? 65. What reports must she make? 66. How late should she stay in the ward? 67. How can hospital work be made to go smoothly? 68. What sentiments should exist among the nurses? 69. Is the care of the room as important as in a private house? 70. What is the first requisite in a hospital ward? 71. Why is dirt more dangerous there than elsewhere? 72. How can it best be removed from the floor? From the furniture? 73. What should not be dusted with a damp cloth? 74. What is the use of a feather duster? 75. When should the slop-pail be brought into the ward? 76. What special care do the lavatories need? 77. What is to be done with waste matter? 78. How are soiled clothes to be disposed of? 79. How often should the bedside tables be inspected? 80. Why is this necessary? 81. What characterizes a well-kept ward? 82. How can you make it attractive? 83. What care do the refusepails require? 84. What is your duty in regard to hospital supplies? 85. What are you expected to keep in your dressing-basket? 86. Where should it stand? 87. When should its contents be renewed? 88. What rule for keeping things in order? 89. How is confusion to

be avoided? 90. What above all things must you never do? 91. How can you acquire the reputation of a neat and skillful nurse?

CHAPTER III.—1. Is bed-making an art of any great importance? 2. When does it become so? 3. When you go to a new case, what will you probably have to do first? 4. What will be the effect if you do it well? 5. What is the best material for a bedstead? Why? 6. How can you guard against vermin? 7. How exterminate them? 8. State any other method that you know to be of value. 9. What are the best dimensions for a sick-bed? 10. What objections to having it wider ? Or higher? 11. Why are you forbidden to get on the bed yourself? 12. What kind of springs are most desirable? Why? 13. What over the springs? 14. What advantage has a straw mattress? Hair? 15. What do you gain by having the mattress made in sections? 16. What additional care do you then have to take? 17. What is the worst thing you can keep an invalid on? Why? 18. If you find your patient on a feather-bed, what will you do about it? 19. Is it always a matter of importance? When not? 20. In what cases is a very firm bed necessary? 21. What is a fractureboard? 22. Why do you have holes in it? 23. What is the best material for sheets? Why? 24. How should a shect be made? 25. How do you proceed to make a bed? 26. How can you fix the under sheet firmly? 27. What precaution must be observed? 28. Should you put a blanket under this sheet? 29. How protect the bed from discharges? 30. What is a draw-sheet? 31. What can you substitute for rubber sheeting? 32. How long would you keep the rubber on the bed? 33. How much clothing should be over the patient? What kind? 34. When are woolen sheets desirable? 35. Would you allow your patient to sleep with his head under the bed-clothes? 36. Why are several light covers warmer than a single heavy one? 37. What is the very warmest thing you can put over your patient? 38. Is there any danger in using a down quilt? 39. What objection to cotton comforters? 40. What may you use in place of a counterpane? 41. What should you always have at hand at night? 42. How often do blankets need to be washed? 43. How can you remove blood-stains from them? 44. How remove stains from rubber? 45. What special attention do hospital beds require? 46. How secure uniformity in their appearance? 47. What should be the position of the bed in a sick-room? 48. How near the wall? 49. How should the light fall? 50. Should anything be allowed under the bed? 51. What precaution should be taken in touching the bed? 52. To what

annoyance are patients often subjected?

53. How avoid this? 54. When the weight of the bed-clothes is painful, how may they be arranged? 55. How can you improvise a cradle ? 56. How would you change the sheet under a patient? 57. Give two ways of changing the upper sheet without uncovering the patient. 58. If you can give only one clean sheet, which shall it be? 59. How often should sheets be changed? 60. What should you do to them before putting them on the bed? 61. What is always dangerous in a bed? 62. How can you let fresh air into an occupied bed? 63. Is this a safe thing to do? 64. How can you freshen the bed if you do not change the sheets? 65. What is the best possible arrangement of beds? 66. How can you transfer a helpless patient from one bed to another? Three methods. 67. How would you take hold of a patient to lift him? 68. How may you improvise a stretcher? 69. Name some

purpose.

cases in which a change of beds is impracticable, and tell why. 70. With an ordinary double bed, what can be done? 71. How often should pillow-cases be changed? 72. In changing the pillows under a patient's head, what is to be avoided? 73. How would you proceed to prop a patient up with pillows? 74. Describe a good pillow for this 75. Describe some bed-rests that you have seen. 76. What may you temporarily substitute for a bed-rest? 77. How can you keep a feeble patient from slipping down in bed? 78. What arrangement can be made for helping a patient to lift himself? 79. What may be done with small pillows? 80. What especially comfortable kind? 81. How do you prepare them for use? 82. Describe an airbed. A water-bed. 83. What do you put under the water-bed? 84. What over it? 85. At what temperature should the water be? 86. How often should it be changed? 87. What special care do air- and water-beds require ? 88. What can you say of crumbs in a bed? 89. How can they be kept out? 90. What does a well-cared-for bed indicate? 91. Will any serious consequences arise from its neglect? 92. What are bed-sores? 93. What causes them? 94. In what parts of the body do they occur most frequently? 95. In what cases is there the greatest liability to them? 96. Can they be prevented? 97. Can they be cured? 98. Which is easier? 99. What are the best preventive measures? 100. When should they be begun? 101. How are you to keep the bed in proper condition? 102. What can you do to harden the skin? 103. Why do you use powder? 104. What kind is advised? 105. What care is necessary in using lycopodium?

106. If the skin is abraded, how will you protect it from fur

ther injury? 107. How is the local pressure to be relieved? 108. What is the final resort as a preventive? 109. Why is a water-bed effective? 110. What are the first symptoms of a bed-sore? 111. Are the subjective symptoms always present? 112. What, then, is necessary on the part of the nurse? 113. What ought you to do when you discover signs of a bed-sore? 114. What happens if the first indications are neglected? 115. To whom does the treatment of bed-sores properly belong? 116. How much has the nurse to do with it? 117. What is the usual treatment after the skin is broken? 118. If it is left to you, what shall you do first? 119. If a slough forms, how may its separation be hastened? 120. When the slough is detached, what is discovered? 121. Is there any danger of continuing the poulticing too long? 122. What treatment does Brown-Séquard advise at this stage? 123. How will you treat the ulcer after the separation of the slough? 124. What is "Wood's Mixture"? For what is it used? 125. What other things are similarly used? 126. How is the dressing to be applied? 127. How often should it be renewed? 128. What attention should be paid to the patient's general condition? 129. What is the immediate cause of a bed-sore? 130. What danger if it is neglected? 131. Mention two ways in which a fatal result may follow.

CHAPTER IV.-1. Repeat the definition of health quoted. 2. Give any other comprehensive definition. 3. Of what importance is the blood? 4. Describe it as it appears to the naked eye. 5. As it appears under the microscope. 6. What are corpuscles? 7. How many kinds are there? 8. Give three points of difference between them. 9. What is the plasma? 10. Of what is it composed? 11. What gives the blood its red color? 12. What will be the appearance of the body if there is a deficiency of red corpuscles? 13. What occurs to the blood when it is removed from its natural surroundings? 14. Describe the process of coagulation. 15. Of what use is this provision of nature? 16. Does coagulation ever take place within the body? 17. What is it then called? 18. What is an embolus ? 19. What is the function of the blood? 20. Who discovered the manner of its circulation? When? 21. How many kinds of blood-vessels are there? Tell the office of each. 22. Describe the heart. Locate it. 23. What is the pericardium? 24. What is its use? 25. Describe the internal construction of the heart. 26. What are the auricles? The ventricles? 27. Is there any connection between the auricles and the ventricles? 28. Is there any connection between the two sides of the