A Text-book of nursingAppleton, 1885 - 396 pages |
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Page 18
... warm , with the nails short , and well brushed . Cold or heavy hands will make a patient shrink from your touch ; long , sharp nails are likely to scratch him . Cultivate a touch at once firm and gentle , light and steady . The ...
... warm , with the nails short , and well brushed . Cold or heavy hands will make a patient shrink from your touch ; long , sharp nails are likely to scratch him . Cultivate a touch at once firm and gentle , light and steady . The ...
Page 37
... warm . But the invalid , whose confinement to it is more or less permanent and compulsory , and the acuteness of whose sensations is aggravated by disease , finds few things more seriously affecting his comfort than the condition of his ...
... warm . But the invalid , whose confinement to it is more or less permanent and compulsory , and the acuteness of whose sensations is aggravated by disease , finds few things more seriously affecting his comfort than the condition of his ...
Page 39
... warm , soft , absorbent , and consequently nearly always damp . Unless it is stuffed uncommonly full , the patient sinks at once into a hole ; it is impossible to keep it level , and , if it once gets wet , there is no way of reno ...
... warm , soft , absorbent , and consequently nearly always damp . Unless it is stuffed uncommonly full , the patient sinks at once into a hole ; it is impossible to keep it level , and , if it once gets wet , there is no way of reno ...
Page 41
... warm , and not weighty . They should come up high enough to tuck in snugly around the throat , if de- sired ; but the patient should not be allowed to sleep with his head under the bedclothes , breathing the nox- ious emanations from ...
... warm , and not weighty . They should come up high enough to tuck in snugly around the throat , if de- sired ; but the patient should not be allowed to sleep with his head under the bedclothes , breathing the nox- ious emanations from ...
Page 45
... warm weather — be found refreshing . If you can not change the sheets , pull them as tight and straight as possible , which will give a fresh feeling to the bed . The best possible arrangement is to have two of the narrow beds above ...
... warm weather — be found refreshing . If you can not change the sheets , pull them as tight and straight as possible , which will give a fresh feeling to the bed . The best possible arrangement is to have two of the narrow beds above ...
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Page 132 - Carrageen moss, pour over it two cups of boiling water, and let it stand where it will keep hot, but not boil, for two hours.