Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — SICK-ROOM DON’TS. [ARTICLE]

SICK-ROOM DON’TS.

Don’t appear anxious, however great your anxiety. Don’t let stale flowers remain in a sick chamber. Don’t have the temperature of a rick-room over 70 degrees. Don’t jar the bed by leaning or sitting upon it. This is unpleasant to one ill and nervous. Don't ask a convalescent if he would like this or that to drink, but prepare the delicacies and present them in a tempting way. Don t neglect during the day to attend’ to necessaries for the night, that the rest of the patient and the family may not be disturbed. Don’t be unmindful of yourself if you are in the responsible position of nurse. To do faithful work you m ist have proper food and stated hours of rest. Don’t throw coal upon the fire; place it in brown paper bags and lay them on the fire, thus avoiding the noise, which Is shocking to the sick and sensitive. Don’t light a sick-room at night by means of a jet of gas burning low; nothing impoverishes the air s on -r. Use sperm candles, or tapers w ich faura in sperm oil DON’T permit currents of air to blow upon tike patient An open fire-place is an excellent means of ventilation. The current may be tested by burning a piece of paper in front Don’t give the patient a full glass of water to drink from unless he is allowed all he desires. If he can drain the glass he will be satisfied: so regulate tha quantity before handing it to him. Don’t forget to have a few beans oi ooCee handy, for this serves as a deWdorixer, if burnt on coals or paper Bits of«chareoal plaeed around are use 4ul te absorbing gases and other imBon’T Allow offensive matters to re mate; In eaaee ,of .emergency where these cannot beat opep removed, wring a heavy doth, for instance., like Turkish teweiing, out of cold water, use it or ouor and