Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-07

If the temperature 1allS SHduelIlA during the progress of the fever, she knows that this is not always an iudi- cation of convalescenCe, but instead some serious complication may have produced it. These facts an untraincd nurse could not understand.
 The trained nurse knows that the heart is the pump which forces tha blood through the arteries. capillaries and veins to supply nourshment to the various parts of the body and at the same time to carry off a certain amount of mpurity. In order to do this. the heart must be able to per form it's functions without the least friction. The slightest interference is easily detected by the trained nurse. When a traned nurse enters a sick room and finds a patient breathing at minute she realizes at once that the proper substance of the lungs is in- famed, and the grave necessity of having the room properly ventilated. It is indeed quite an injustice to the sick patient thus sufferng to have the sick room crowded with persons who cause the air in the room to become poisoned and unfit to be reinhaled l by the sick patient; still in many al, Xl,. which many patients suffer
 [ There never has been a time when there Was as much stress placed upon the necessity of the full expansion of the lungs and sufficient supply of pure, fresh air as now There seems to be a universal cry. "pure air" With out it the entire organisnm is weak ened
 The trained nnrse observes every part of the mechanism and notes the changes which may follow during the physicians absence Tn fact, she is the one sentinel stading on guard She is always thoroughly prepared with her arnica chart and thernlome ter to give the attending physician the different changes and complications since his last visit. which enables him l to understand the conditions at once where delay would probably cause the death of the patient.
 She sees that every order given hy the attending physician is properly exs ecuted.
 See the trained nurse as she moves with noiseess tread in the lonely hour of midnight, ever watching her patient and administering every neees sitN. So kind, gentle and charitable is she that the patient fees perfectly safe and that all will soon end well.
 Go ask the soldier who fell on yor battlefield what hand it was tha
 brought relief, hope and inspiration Tn many a hospital where the wound ed and dying lie, there is no voice that is known and loved as that O the trained nurse.
 Soldiers years ago on finding tha certain injuries had been inflicted. Ol certain bones broken gave up in utter despair not because of the unbearaDlt pains. but because there Were no train od nurses Is this the case today Recent experiments in the JapO Rus sian war prove that through trained nurses on the field of battle the deatl rate is much less. This Was especially true of the Japanese who had a corps of trained nurses.
 This result was achieved only through the well trained corps of nurs es following every battalion. Their eX ample in this respect has revolutioniZ ed all former methods in caring fo' the sick and wounded in time of war
 What better evidence can be pre- sented to the eyes of civilization that th.s startling change in the death rat of the sick and wounded upon the field of battle? Where 75 per cent o the sick and wounded died, We have today converted these figures. placln2 the death rate at only 25 per cent returning 75 sons, husbands and fath