No other word will express it
but "desperation." And it sets the seal of ignorance and stupidity just
as much on the governors and attendants of the sick if they do not
provide the sick-bed with a "view" of some kind, as if they did not
provide the hospital with a kitchen.
[21]
[Sidenote: Physical effect of colour.]
No one who has watched the sick can doubt the fact, that some feel
stimulus from looking at scarlet flowers, exhaustion from looking at
deep blue, &c.
[22]
[Sidenote: Nurse must have some rule of time about the patient's diet.]
Why, because the nurse has not got some food to-day which the patient
takes, can the patient wait four hours for food to-day, who could not
wait two hours yesterday? Yet this is the only logic one generally
hears. On the other hand, the other logic, viz., of the nurse giving a
patient a thing because she _has_ got it, is equally fatal. If she
happens to have fresh jelly, or fresh fruit, she will frequently give it
to the patient half-an-hour after his dinner, or at his dinner, when he
cannot possibly eat that and the broth too--or worse still leave it by
his bed-side till he is so sickened with the sight of it, that he cannot
eat it at all.
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