What directions respecting the
bed-linen of the patient? What is necessary when there is a change of
clothing?

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1014. TEMPERATURE. The warmth of the chamber should be carefully
watched by the nurse. The feelings of the patient or nurse are not to
be relied on as an index of the temperature of the room. There should
be a well-adjusted thermometer in every sick-room. This should be
frequently consulted by the nurse.

1015. The temperature of the sick-chamber should be _moderate_. If it
is so cold as to cause a chill, the disease will be aggravated. If, on
the other hand, it is too warm, the patient is enfeebled and rendered
more susceptible to cold on leaving the sick-chamber. The Latin maxim,
"_In medio tutissimus ibis_," (in medium there is most safety,) should
be regarded in the rooms of the sick.

1016. QUIET. The room of the patient should be kept free from noise.
The community should be guided by this rule, that no more persons
remain in the room of the sick, than the welfare of the patient
demands. It is the duty of the physician to direct when visitors can
be admitted or excluded from the sick-room, and the nurse should see
that these directions are enforced.

1017. The movements of the attendants should be gentle and noiseless.
Shutting doors violently, creaking hinges, and all unnecessary noise,
should be avoided. Most persons refrain from loud talking in the sick
chamber, but are not equally careful to abstain from _whispering_,
which is often more trying than a common tone.

1018. It is the duty of the nurse to ascertain the habits of the
patient as respects the period for eating and sleep, when in health,
that she may prepare the food and arrange the sick-room in accordance
with the practice of the patient. If the person who is sick is
ignorant of the necessity of the removal of the waste products from
the system the nurse should invite attention to these functions at
such periods as are in accordance with the previous habits of the
patient.

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1014. Why should there be a well-adjusted thermometer in every
sick-chamber? 1015. What is said of the temperature of the sick-chamber?
1016. Why should the sick-room be kept quiet? 1017. What is said of noise
in the sick-chamber? Of whispering? 1018. Should the habits of the
patient be regarded in reference to the period for eating and sleep?

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1019. The deportment and remar