The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-05
ADVICE TOUNTRAINED NURSES.
A Physician Talks of the Good
They Can Accomplish.

Dr. Howard Tracy Hanks address on
How the Unframed Nurse May Help
the Doctor" which was delivered be-
fore the New York Household Economic
Association, at the Industrial Building.
yesterday afternoon, was listened to by
a large audience. many members and
guests being present. Mrs. Alexander
presided i'm the absence Of Mrs, Smaller.
the president. The lecturer opened his
remarks by reminding the women be-
fore him of their advantages and pre-
negatives in ministering to the sick. He
said in part:
1.-THE last sixty years have comprised
period of great activity in all that re-
lates TO the higher education of women.
| ThreeScore years ago the first school
was established in America in which
women could study the higher mathe-
mates. Strides have, been made since
then. and now questions relating to the
preservation of health are of a para
mount importance. How to live in
small room: how to live in a clean room;
how to have the room well lighted and
well ventilated: how to wear clean gar
ments and to read clean books, to talk
clean thoughts. to cook wholesome food.
and to do all economically, are accom-
Il came to New York" DR.. Hanks went
on, from Massachusetts town where
bedrooms were larg and square, with
open fireplaces and abundantly ventilated.
Ventilation Is Gods best doctor--sun-
shine is next | could cure more sick
people without the aid of nurse in such
rooms and with such ventilation than in
closely packed city houses with the help
of the best of nurses"
bF 90 of La ri
nurses schools have acquired, and
minded his hearers that the first school
for training women as nurses was es-
tablished in Scotland in 1888.
Germs" he continued. ARE the enc
mics We have 10 fight. especially in cities.
The germ theory was first advanced in
1861" And il was also stated that moth
erS and housekeepers could not guard
against them too closely. The doctor then
gave some general directions as to how
severe Illness may be detected and treat
ed. Even "A tyro can tell the state OF
health by certain symptoms he said;
IAN unusually high or low temperature
great pallor, restlessness of body. flushed
face. corrugatOns of forehead. cold ex-
tremities. great heat under the hips and
back-all this shows serious physical dis
turbance. Everyone should know how 10
take the pulse and the temperature. The
normal temperature is 9S.5 degrees, the
normal pulse 90 to 20 minute, and res
piraton IS a minute"
One Of the members asked II IL was
remarkable thing for the pulse of per-
fectly healthy person to be liz. The doc
tor replied that such record was unusu-
al, but not inconsistent with an otherwise
healthy state. and that a multiplicity of
influences governed the action OF the
heart. When asked about the treatment
for hysteria, he said:
For q man or a woman and then
added that joking aside. II was a malady
that needed careful treatment for some,
but that he would say to mothers il
should be thoroughly eradicated from
children and young girls Wear it out
Of them" he said. and If 1t is a shipper
ing girl. glass OF cold ice water in her
face will be most effective. If it's boy
OF twelve years Of age, thrash it out of
him. / would If he were mine"