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Show A certain amount of physical exercise exer-cise is necessary in order that the functions of variouB organs receive stimulation, Nurse thiukB. Lack of exercise makes the blood sluggish and the Impurities are thrown from one organ to another without being expelled from the body. Exercise stirr the circulation and encourages aeep breathing which enables the lungs to throw of the impurities more freely. The value of fruits and fruit juices as a cathartic is destroyed if they are taken with other food. The proper time to take them, for this purpose, is in the morning when the stomach is entirely empty. Olive oil, taken every morning half an hour before breakfast is good for removing liver spots and otherwise clearing the complexion. Take a ten-spoon ten-spoon of the best olive oil before breakfast and the same quantity hair an hour after the latest meal. THE AMATEUR IN SICK ROOM Everyone cannot go through the long and arduous training by which professional nurses are made, yet everyone ev-eryone should take the trouble to learn enough to be helpful In a sick room. Take first the bed-making. It is a treat to see a realy good nurse make a bed for a- sick person, but it is not a professional secret, after all, and anyone any-one can learn to do it. It Is not even necessary to wait for some one to tail sick, for two members of a n uj Can practIce on each other until un-til they become perfect. It is possible possi-ble to change a sheet under a sick person s0 clumsily as to upset him lor hours; it Is also possible to do it so deftly that he is hardly aware of the process. Only practice can make perfect in this as In other arts: but you can master the general rules easily enough, especially If you learn tneni by observation rather than from a book. The care of the sick room Itself Is a matter of conimon sense rather than technical knowledge. A person who would sweep there should be swept out herself with the other rubbish. rub-bish. All dusting, and especially the cleaning of the floor, should be done with a damp cloth, and there should be nothing in the room to accumulate dust except the absolutely necessary things ou can keep up an open fire ,T,S?0Un,inak,!ng a Iot oE uole and dust, although not everyone knows It. the n,U0Snf Pa r 0f- old oves, build the fire piece by piece, and you need not disturb the lightest sleeper. boXK-1 PlaC,Dr of t-water bottles sometimes causes the patient bottl2d deQl f SUferInS- Unless t?e bottles are protected by a woollen ?S"g' VC,ry iU or "conscious pi tients can be severely burned bv them, in putting a bounded or jured patient to bed, always remove the clothing from the uninjured limbs first, end move tho injured limb as little as possible. Remember to keep external medicines and intornal medicines medi-cines separated. In surgical cases, remembor that all instruments must be boiled every time they (are used, and that the hands of everyone who assists must not only be clean, but chemically clean, by being washed in some antiseptic solution. Youth's Companion. |