Show trained good nursing is a science to 0 by hard study and long experience it 19 not an inspiration nor a matter of good intentions it is knowledge and skill which arc needed by the sick man and devotion cannot take the place of intelligence it is not hard n doctor but lie must have somo help ho cannot sta to watch things he roust go on to ho next person who needs liim cheru gniot bo some one in charge to whom hu can look on liis return for an accurate report of the action of alio alio variation ut alio pule alic temperature of the body who can bo trusted to fill the place surely quite without know 1 edge or experience and no amount of loe iiii can inspire a woman with all this knowledge just happened to need it tt she by lias it sliu is fortunate but alint is audly to iw ejected how many mothers and lifters sifters are there who know just lie way to adjust a bandage manage a bedsore bed sore ventilate a room or properly make of n helpless patient it is a fine thing 1 mother should bo willing to die for lier child it would be a finer tiling fur lier to know how by belh bandage or ice bag to save both alio and A er by alic bedside of n child sick with diphtheria needs not luie but knowledge in alio blick hours after midnight when alic doctor ia beyond call and alio llio symptoms are changing there may como a moment a dilill stimulant is needed insul there ii i i in tier lie art which can lall hat which a bedoit would kill will now if n time save alie eli after the measles aru over aisil alic doctor d emitted a niest niost dangerous congestion of the lungs may set in alio plainest sign of this n n difference in tin childs respiration which nono but a practiced i sir will perceive if it is at once child may lie saved it not in a very few licurs liours it will be beuma any ln lp 0 nurse or doctor lvery ear scores of die around us of fevers and yet nightingale says a most eminent and anglish physician who is an authority on fevers thinks very little cf u nurse alio loses h fever aliee are but a few 0 alie instances the quality of llie nur ing is a matter of vital importance one medical writer ays in a easo of serious illuce s no or solicitude can serve as alie triin cd skill nf a lii besides alic very solicitude of nn anxious friend maj defeat its nv n intent I 1 bc eliat in critical cases the physician will always a competent nurse to a devoted nut inexperienced alic nurse alio is alie substitute in ins absence lie anil not the oscr wife or mother can b safely bcd wit h alio llio secrets of alio case and can keep alic steady knifes ti imil view of it is alic most promising fine fur llie nl A aliis city says two die for want cf proper nursing one suffers for dm lack of a doctor it has happened here many times aliat a physician bus hesitated about performing an operation simply became hu believed clial alic might dio from want af proper attention after the surgical part of alic work w as perfectly done some surgeons in new york leavo refused to perform certain operations unless 1 trained nurse is put in charge of alie patient when they loav him Jon |