A SHORT COURSE IN NURSING THINGS ALL MOTHERS SHOULD KNOW. FROM THE BOOK NOTES ON NURSING by Florence Nightingale 1859. This book was intended “to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others.” Jim’s comment. That means you mom, not your doctor. Page 7. “Shall we begin by taking it as a general principle that all disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand? Page 8. In watching diseases, both in private houses and in public hospitals, the thing which strikes the experienced observer most forcibly is this, that the symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different---of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of care in the administration of diet, of each or all of these. I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet—all at the least expense of vital power to the patient. Page 9. The art of nursing, as now practiced, seems to be expressly constituted to unmake what God had made disease to be, a reparative process.” Jim’s comment. These thoughts are 155 years old, and ‘Modern medicine” still doesn’t get it. Just the other day a friend of mine was in the hospital. The nurse woke him up at 3 am to weigh him. And hospitals still do not have windows that open to provide fresh air. Rest means nothing to the medical profession. And don’t get me started on their insistence to feed the sick. Please read her thoughts a few times. Lots more to come. P.S. This lady is no longer taught to Nurses in training. Before you finish my tidbits of her book you will know why. Jim Novax O’Kelly Discoverer of the ‘living virus and antibody deception.
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