LONDON:
HARRISON, 59, PALL MALL,
BOOKSELLER TO THE QUEEN.
[The right of Translation is reserved.]
PRINTED BY HARRISON AND SONS,
ST. MARTIN'S LANE, W.C.
The following notes are by no means intended as a rule ofthought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still lessas a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply togive hints for thought to women who have personal charge ofthe health of others. Every woman, or at least almost everywoman, in England has, at one time or another of her life,charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child orinvalid,—in other words, every woman is a nurse. Every daysanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or in otherwords, of how to put the constitution in such a state as thatit will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease,takes a higher place. It is recognized as the knowledge whichevery one ought to have—distinct from medical knowledge,which only a profession can have.
If, then, every woman must, at some time or other of herlife, become a nurse, i.e., have charge of somebody's health,how immense and how valuable would be the produce of herunited experience if every woman would think how to nurse.
I do not pretend to teach her how, I ask her to teach herself,and for this purpose I venture to give her some hints.