Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1908 — Nurses Dread Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Nurses Dread Lightning.

Of all people who are glad when the season of thunderstorms is past, none are more thankful than professional nurses. “It Isn’t that we are so afraid of lightning ourselves," said a hospital nurse, ‘ffiut it haß a harmful effect on our patients. .. Most sick people have an unreasoning fear of lightning. In cases of extreme weakness or nervousness a dozen flashes of blinding lightning reduces the patient to such a state of prostration that it takes extraordinary efforts on the part of the nurse to bring him around. If one sick person requires all that extra attention In a thunderstorfn, just imagine the predicament of the nurse who has a whole ward full of them on her hands.”