author - "Florence Nightingale"
the air without in the rooms you sleep in? Butfor this, you must have sufficient outlet for the impure air you makeyourselves to go out; sufficient inlet for the pure air from without tocome in. You must have open chimneys, open windows, or ventilators; noclose curtains round your beds; no shutters or curtains to your windows,none of the contrivances by which you undermine your own health ordestroy the chances of recovery of your sick.[4]
[Sidenote: When warmth must be most carefully looked to.]
A careful nurse will keep a constant watch over her sick, especiallyweak, protracted, and collapsed cases, to guard against the effects ofthe loss of vital heat by the patient himself. In certain diseasedstates much less heat is produced than in health; and there is aconstant tendency to the decline and ultimate extinction of the vitalpowers by the call made upon them to sustain the heat of the body. Caseswhere this occurs should be watched with the greatest care from hour tohour, I had almost said
the air without in the rooms you sleep in? Butfor this, you must have sufficient outlet for the impure air you makeyourselves to go out; sufficient inlet for the pure air from without tocome in. You must have open chimneys, open windows, or ventilators; noclose curtains round your beds; no shutters or curtains to your windows,none of the contrivances by which you undermine your own health ordestroy the chances of recovery of your sick.[4]
[Sidenote: When warmth must be most carefully looked to.]
A careful nurse will keep a constant watch over her sick, especiallyweak, protracted, and collapsed cases, to guard against the effects ofthe loss of vital heat by the patient himself. In certain diseasedstates much less heat is produced than in health; and there is aconstant tendency to the decline and ultimate extinction of the vitalpowers by the call made upon them to sustain the heat of the body. Caseswhere this occurs should be watched with the greatest care from hour tohour, I had almost said