A Text-book of nursingAppleton, 1885 - 396 pages |
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... XX . - OBSTETRICS . 261 XXI . - SICK CHILDREN 279 XXII . SPECIAL MEDICAL CASES 289 XXIII . THE TERMINATIONS OF DISEASE 303 QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW AND EXAMINATION . VOCABULARY 311 371 INDEX . 393 A TEXT - BOOK OF NURSING . CHAPTER I.
... XX . - OBSTETRICS . 261 XXI . - SICK CHILDREN 279 XXII . SPECIAL MEDICAL CASES 289 XXIII . THE TERMINATIONS OF DISEASE 303 QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW AND EXAMINATION . VOCABULARY 311 371 INDEX . 393 A TEXT - BOOK OF NURSING . CHAPTER I.
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... side , and so much helpfulness on the other , as to tend to develop what may be de- scribed as the maternity of nursing . A sick person is , for the time being , as a child , and INTRODUCTORY - NURSING AND NURSES . 19.
... side , and so much helpfulness on the other , as to tend to develop what may be de- scribed as the maternity of nursing . A sick person is , for the time being , as a child , and INTRODUCTORY - NURSING AND NURSES . 19.
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Mrs. Clara S. Shaw. for the time being , as a child , and looks to his nurse for a mother's care . From such a relation a certain tenderness of feeling almost inevitably springs , and with it patience to bear with the whims and ...
Mrs. Clara S. Shaw. for the time being , as a child , and looks to his nurse for a mother's care . From such a relation a certain tenderness of feeling almost inevitably springs , and with it patience to bear with the whims and ...
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... child . All this is assuming that the sick person is perfectly helpless . If he can help himself a little , it of course makes the matter still less difficult . To move him into another bed , although it sounds like a good deal of an ...
... child . All this is assuming that the sick person is perfectly helpless . If he can help himself a little , it of course makes the matter still less difficult . To move him into another bed , although it sounds like a good deal of an ...
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... children , you may get it best in the temporal artery during sleep . It is often difficult to get a child's pulse anywhere when it is awake . To take a pulse accurately , place two or three fingers along the course of the artery ...
... children , you may get it best in the temporal artery during sleep . It is often difficult to get a child's pulse anywhere when it is awake . To take a pulse accurately , place two or three fingers along the course of the artery ...
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abdomen acid action albumen antiseptic aorta applied arteries bandage bath bleeding blister blood body bones bowels breath Bright's disease burn called cantharides carbolic carbolic acid catheter cavity chest child chloroform clean Cloth cold water common condition constipation covered danger diarrhoea digestion discharge disease disinfected dose dressings dyspnoea effect emetic enema fever finger fluid fracture give given hæmorrhage head heart heat important inflammation injury intestinal irritation keep less limb lungs matter medicine membrane milk mouth mucous mucous membrane muscles nausea necessary nurse ounces pain patient pint placenta plaster poison poultice pressure pulse quantity rectum relieved removed respiration salt sheet sick sick-room side skin solution sometimes specific gravity sponge stimulants strangury STRYCHNIA sugar surface symptoms tablespoonful taken temperature Tincture tion tissues trachea treatment tube urine usually uterus ventilation vomiting ward warm washed wound
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