Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-06-10
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pleasure TO look at. The work before US we con
ceive to contain precepts which it is the duty
Of every grown person TO master to the letter.
and it. performing that duty, readers do not
also find tn It it is one of the most peasurable men
tai occupations they ever engaged in, their minds
are very differently constructed from ours
We say every ones duty DREAD it, is true that
Miss NIeHNoAIE chiefly contemplated her own sex
as readers. She says in her preface /" Every wo-
man, or at least almost every woman, in England
has, at one time or another Of her life, charge Of
the personal health Of somebody whether child or
invalid. In other words, every ,0omaR Is a nurse"
But in America this liability does not fall on the
gertler sex alone. Would that it did. Would that
every young man, wher sick, could calculate upon
the gentle administrations Of for the relief
and solace Of his sufferings. But in lhis locomotive
country, where the young birds away from the
nest almost before they are fedged, where the
Green Mountain boy seeks his fortune in New Or
leans and the cadets Of the Virginia plantations in
California, thousands Of youths, especially in large
cities can calculate upon no better attendance when
sick thanhat of comrades oftheir own sex And sooth
70 say such as it is this is offered with the warmest
and kinlliest zeal, but oh, what misconcePtion Of
what is really wanted what suffering is inflicted by
the clumsy, uninstructed, though we'll meant efforts
Of these volunteers, and all for the want of little
teaching.
Here then is the book for them; it is a miracle
what an amount Of sound systematic instruction is
comprised in the pages Of this thin duodecimo and
how simple it all seems, how obvious the reason Of
the clear and concise rules prescribed and advocat-
ed and yet how different from what we see in every
sick room we visit. The weathest and most luxu-
rous homes, alike with the wretched novels Of the
sick poor, constantly exhibit the most astounding
disregard Of the simplest hygeinic principles; the
tenderest mother with her sick child makes as
glazing blunders as the boon companion who from
sheer good nature abandons his business or his
pleasure to perform the unwonted Office of nurse to
his invalid friend. Fresh air, quiet cleanliness
sustaining and digestible nutriment, these seem
things that any one can understand and yet how all
four Of them are neglected in the arrangements not
only for sickness but for health in every residence
visit, or. if not neglected. then defeated by
skilful and ignorant arrangements for procuring
them. We have SAID that every one, at least every
family ought to have this book; we viii now add,
that Gext to mothers Of families no viii profit
by it so much as physicians; for though physician
cannot execute the duties of nurse he ought at least
70 be able to direct what is be done in his Absences
but our experience of doctors is that not so many as
one in ten understands the first principles of nurs
ing we can at least answer for one who thought
he knew all about it, that he found precepts in this
little book apparently not obvious the infraction Of
which he has witnessed uureproved To- mcnyyears.
Now, gentlemen practitioners, don't get your pro-
fessiona dignity offended Miss NIGHTINGALE is very
far from being one of those meddlesome purses who
fhirI thav oarnof 10 hattnr shake he cOu6-
dence Of the patient in his medical adviser by con
tradictng his opinions and commenting upon his
prescriptions.
Read the twelfth chapter on ctqteriRg hopes and
adriees and you find her perfectly orthodox on this
point. She knows well where the functions Of the
doctor and nurse respectively terminate, but az the
same time she has opportunities Of observing the
influence of minute, surrounding circumstances
which you can never have Remember that she
is with the patient for hours, when you can only
see him for minutes, add that during this time she
is watching HIM not indeed in the light Of profound
science like yours but with the keen insight OF wo-
mans charity. and believe US, that with all your
pathology. she can teach You much 50 put your
dignity in your pocket, AMI study this little book as
hard as you studied the antony Of the sphenoid
bone.
Apart however. from the information and coun-
sci contained in it, it is beautiful study to observe
how in it unconscously is deIineated portraiture
of the beautiful soul Of its authoress. While she
goes on to describe the faint and delicate shades Of
waxing and waning vitality in the paticat-the diff
ferent manners of sleeping and the ways and means
for aiding nature in this respect, the huctuatons Of
appetite and the sratagems for hum0ring the feeble
stomach we are at every line reminded of the school
of active benefcence in which all this valuable lore
was acquired, of the unwearying vIgs by night and
by cay over the perturbed slumbers Of the sick-ot
the aectionate dexterity in devsing yiands to pam
per their caprcious appetiJe-n word, we are un-
able in the details OF this little book. to trace the
daily life of the sweetest saint who has yet been
vouchsafed to this undeserying nineteenth century
IL is like studying those lOveest creations Of tic-
ton the female characters of SHAEEsPEARE, with this
one superiority, that herein what we learn to love
and venerate is a real living woman which is some
thing better than the loyelest creations of poetry
though the magician who couiures them into exist
encc be SHNEsrEtUE himself
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