Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — SICK-ROOM DON’TS. [ARTICLE]

SICK-ROOM DON’TS.

Don’t appea? anxious, however great four anxiety. Don’t let stale flowers remain in a lick chamber. Don’t have the temperature of a rtck-room over 70 decrees. 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 prepan the delicaoies and present them in > tempting way. Don’t neglect during the day to attend to necessaries for the nignt, 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 must have proper food and stated hours oi 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 shooking 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 >ener. Use sperm candles, or tapers w ich burn in sperm oil. Don’t permit currents of air to blow upon the patient. An open fire-place Is an excellent means of ventilation. The current may be tested by burning i piece of paper in front. Don’t give the patient a full glass 01 water to drink from unless he Is allowed all he desires. If he oan draia the glass he Will be satisfied; so regulate the quantity before handing it to him. Don’t forget to have a few beans of coffee handy, for this serves as a deklorizer, if burnt on coals or paper. Bits of charcoal placed around are use ful in absorbing gases and o.her impurities. Don’t allow offensive matters to remain; in cases of emergency where these cannot be at once removed, wring * heavy cloth, for instance, like Turk Ish toweling, out of cold water, us, .1 as a cover, placing over this ordina • paper. Such means prevent the escape •f '.'doff and infection. The wild goose and some other aquatic birds are able to admit air between the skin and the body, and are thus protected against ooLd by an aimoat mmarvious air