For they are incapable
themselves, to all appearance, of the spirit of arrangement (no small
task) necessary for managing a large ward or dairy.
[26]
[Sidenote: Nurses often do not think the sick room any business of
theirs, but only the sick.]
I once told a "very good nurse" that the way in which her patient's room
was kept was quite enough to account for his sleeplessness; and she
answered quite good-humouredly she was not at all surprised at it--as if
the state of the room were, like the state of the weather, entirely out
of her power. Now in what sense was this woman to be called a "nurse?"
[27] For the same reason if, after washing a patient, you must put the
same night-dress on him again, always give it a preliminary warm at the
fire. The night-gown he has worn must be, to a certain extent, damp. It
has now got cold from having been off him for a few minutes. The fire
will dry and at the same time air it. This is much more important than
with clean things.
[28]
[Sidenote: How a room is _dusted_.]
If you like to clean your furniture by laying out your clean clothes
upon your dirty chairs or sofa, this is one way certainly of doing it.
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