The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-04-28
YL0RENC1 NTaHTINaALE ON SICKNESS
ASD SCR1fNG.

yLoRENcE STsRTxSsALE on SICKNESS
AND NURSfsG.
tbs nebls ue.aa haspahlishsd . volums
o. 40 peess, sDtjtibS, g Nstes On Nsrsiag
What Is il add What IL not" X kss
been republi,hed BY Appleton, New YORK..
We give = few extracts which show The
pracfseal good sense Of the writer asd The
sninaiion Of her style:
oSEslx - NAsr Dsrasss ~ rscTssxrz.
sEss-isfs COS living 10 eonsiauai mis-
take - LOOK upon diseases IS We do Doe,
- separate entities, which npsf exist, Ike
eats and dogs? instead cs locking upon
than ~ eouarsisos, like dirty sud . cssan
eo15iGen. rad fuss - nsuea asdss cns e~u
control; CT ra.bsv q. the reactions OF kindly
na.a.s. against the conditions IL witch We
have placed oGrssirss.
VS. broSghi Up, both By scientific men
ard jsnossns senes, distinctly 70 be.,sse
that small pox, for inssases, vas thing 81
which there vas onca a Erss specimen 10 the
world which sent on psspagassng itssif IN a
perpetual cham 81 descent, Just as raseh =.
shsf shsyr sas y Grs. dog f8r srss pair 81
dogs ani that email pax would noe BERN
itself any more than DC. dog soald not
begIn sIihgs: there hssiBs tsen ) rarsn:
dog.
sinee then hare .seu rish M eyes and
ssasit wisa a. nose sasaH pox grossng up
10 Gsss spsesasaas, either in e.oss raoras 0s
in oserrrewtes sard.. shsrs il cou,a cot BY
any possibility have b4sa " easghs,' bot
nu-t hare begun.
Mar, Hots, hare seen diseases begin,
erow ~, and pass iato one another. aos,
dog. d. nss pas. into cats.
! aass seen, for instance, with . little
evsYcFgwdiEg. continued fever grow up ;
ard siib IigGle more, sspaaid fever, and
with bf,ls more, syras fever, aud all IN
the satne yard or bot.
Would IL not DO far bs;tsr, trusr, and
more practical, II We Looked upon disease
10 this AghGs
For diseases, a. NIL experience shows, are
edjretlvss, not noun sahsEan.IEss.
There aTs not tsw popular opinions, in
regard 10 which il Is useful at times TO ask
aaeslion or Two. For example, il il com
monty thought that children must have what
ars commsaly called "shddren's epidem.
u.s." " current cgntagisns," &C., in othsF
words, ihas they are born 10 have the tnsa.
slss, saoopias cough, perhaps ven scarlet
fever, Just as they vera bo.n 10 Gu. ,Asi'
teeth. iftasy live. ~-
Nov, ID sg!l gs, why must a child have
measles
oh, bseaase, v0a say, va cannot keep II
from affection other children nave nsasles
~~sai il must take Ihsa--unl 1t IS safer
tbst i sbpaIi.
Bus wby must other children have ths
mrasIssY An1 Il they have, aay mast yours
have thrH, tao2
II goa believed in md oh'erred the lass
for preserving the health n houses which
iacHlcats cleanliness, ysattilstGGn, whit
wasbgns, sol other means, and which, By
ihs Way. afs iatrs, a. implicitly q. you be,
lisse IN the popular opinion, for Is - moth
iHg more than an opinion. thas your child
u,asi have sh1lirsn's ep ismtes, DOME you
,hsnk that uP1n the whole your child would
be more likely 80 Escape s.losaiher
TITS FaGLr oE rug PRESENT STYLE es
DaEas sspSg WoxEs ~ SICK koOH. II
IL, think, alarming, peculiarly at this time,
when she female tuk bottles are perpetualiy
iperssagnv apon ~, "w0meg's =" "paatcuIaF
worth aal general msssibnaflasss, TO see
that the ifess ~ woman Is daily mpro and
mars uniting them for any I" missi9n,o OF
useialhess At oil. \ man is now a more
haojy and far less Objectionable being in n
SICK room than a WOMAN. Compelled BY
her dfgss, rvcEy womaa now shufIlss OF
vatilsa~onIY man can cross the Ao0r OF
sssk room without ahaxing IL What i.
hsessms II w5man'. lighs ssep i~.ths fru.
!tgh,, quick step 40 haso been asking for
Unnecessary noise, then, IL the most cFus
ah.sa - af care whtsb caa be INFLICTED either
On alex ar veil. For, In all these remarks
tbs -isk ara onlv mentioned a. suffering ia
greater proportion than tho well from
ptscss"IT n. sane causes.
All daasFtses about mYstrrious nhnitit.
mHi assf.tons will ha found to resolve them
selves very mach, il not entirely. into pres.
snes ~ - seHse ~ care in these tAine..
4 nurse who TustIr., am speaking II
nurses, professional AMI nnproFrss,ohatl i.
the horror II = patient, thou h perhaps be
d. nrt know whv.
Thn hdsnt Of SIX AMI criuelne. ths rat.
ting II keTs. thr crsaslaE ~ stay. and II
shass. sl!l d. patient msre harm than all
the msjaesnps in the world sliI 10 him good.
The naisels'. strp Of woman, the noise.
less drapsrv u woman. are mere figures nf
speech ~ this i1v. Her skirts land we'll Il
ihsT Ia nas throw down some ylees II fur.
ntHFel Will a, least brush against every
article m the room as shs moves.