tion. The practice of daubing the face and hands
with a towel dipped in hot rum, camphor, and vinegar, does not remove
the impurities, but causes the skin soon to feel dry, hard, and
uncomfortable.

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1005. What should a nurse provide herself with, before bathing a
patient? 1006. When should cold water be used? 1007. How should the
bathing then be performed, so that the patient may not contract a
cold? 1008. How often should a sick person be bathed? What is said of
daubing the face and hands merely with a wet cloth?

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1009. FOOD. It is the duty of every woman to know how to make the
simple preparations adapted to a low diet, in the most wholesome and
the most palatable way. Water-gruel,[24] which is the simplest of all
preparations, is frequently so ill-made as to cause the patient to
loathe it. Always prepare the food for the sick, in the neatest and
most careful manner.

[24] Directions for making the simple preparations for the sick are
found in almost every cook-book.

1010. When the physician enjoins abstinence from food, the nurse
should strictly obey the injunction. She should be as particular to
know the physician's directions about diet, as in knowing how and when
to give the prescribed medicines, and obey them as implicitly.

1011. When a patient is convalescent, the desire for food is generally
strong, and it often requires firmness and patience, together with
great care, on the part of the nurse, that the food is prepared
suitably, and given at proper times The physician should direct how
frequently it should be taken.

1012. PURE AIR. It is the duty of the nurse to see that not only the
room is well ventilated in the morning, but that fresh air is
constantly admitted during the day. Great care must be taken, however,
that the patient does not feel the current.

1013. Bed-linen, as well as that of the body, should be aired every
day, and oftener changed in sickness than in health. All clothing,
when changed, should be well dried, and warmed by a fire previous to
its being put on the patient or the bed.

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1009. Should every woman know how to make the simple preparations
adapted to a low diet? 1010. Should the nurse strictly obey the
injunctions of the physician relative to food? 1011. What period of a
person's illness requires the most care in regard to the food? 1012.
Give another duty of the nurse. 1013.