Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-21

1t takes nine tailors to make man,
but one good nurse will make a doc
tor. The wise physician needs must
confess that his tasks are but nan
done without correct nursing.
A physician sees the afflicted per-
son but once in many, many hours.
The alert nurse, with her sympathetic
finger upon the throbbing temple OF
the bounding pulse. marks its every
beat. it's ebb and flow, crest OIL nope
and slough of despond.
A. cynic once said: 1.-THE glamour
a bout the trained nurse Is utterly alb
surd. 1t is a mere trick of fate Wnetn-
er a girl becomes a white-ciad NURSE
or a slavy; whether she presides over
the sick chamber or over the ASH can
and kitchen" a..
In other words. this Metschzian dis
ciple means to convey the fact that
nurse who has served apout operating
rooms. hospitals and contagious DIS,
eases knows no more than her Diooo
sister who accidentally became
mother or servant.
Yet the college woman, the hign
school teacher, the editor of a wom-
ans magazine cannot possibly. by
the nature of things, know now
properly to prepare even SO simple a
thing as baby's bottle, g. cnllo 5
bath or a diabetic diet, though an lg-
norant country lass in the first rev
months of three years nursing eo-
ucation knows as much,
Therapeutics is the science of treat
ing diseases. but until Dickens point
ed the inked-pen of ridicule at POM
pous physicians and SNUG, nursing
Ignorance therapeutics was secret
art locked up in a weed-grown medi-
cal profession. f-e
Nowadays this science Is spreading
broadcast. 1t Is entrusted not only
to the Aesculapians, and Galens. put
to their necessary aids and comforts,
the we'll trained nurses.
1t is a lamentable truth that nurses
at times overestimate the surgical
and medical knowledge that Is theirs:
That is to say, they may try to heal
maladies.' and should not.
Their greatest skill rests upon the
discipline that has taught them how
to prevent illness, to protect the SICK,
observe the changing signs OF physi-
cal disorders and safeguard the sur
ferer from grave complications
They are wise as we'll as conscien-
tious physicians who remand tnelr
patients afflicted with serious mala-
services of a trained nurse. WhyY
Because by a large and long ex-
perience they know that in pneumo-
MIA. typhus, typhoid, scarlet and
other envenomed fevers victory
perches only upon the bedstead where
A nurse stands guarding the seconds.
minutes and hours.
The Intervals between the necessar-
ily infrequent calls of the doctor are
like the open breaches in the walls or
citadel. These are the places into
which mans arch enemy, Grim
Death, PUSHES. Eternal vigilance Is
the price of life in many maiignant
maladies. Ali the devoted love of the
most sleepless, attentive mother and
well-meaning, undisciplined nurse In
the world cannot tell the doctor what
well-kept chart does.
SO much a part of themselves and
necessary are graduate nurses to the
medical man that many of these who
can afford it either keep ono or more
of them on regular pay to send to
their patients, or they pay for a nurse
| where the family Is too poor to do so.
Skillful nursing, like efficient sur
gerry, is the antithesis of sentiment.
| Too much affection or romance in the
sick room spells disaster oftener than
conquest. Well intentioned neigh
bors, near and dear relatives, and
good humored old women who have
''cured hundreds with the same dis
| temper" and slain dozens, who, for
gotten, can tell no tales are rather In
the way with their fiinching SYM
pathies and faulty observations.
The nurse is not only on the qui
vive for the patient, but she econo-
mizes the labor and effectiveness of