A text-book of mental and sick nursing : adapted for medical officers and nurses in private and public asylums / by Robert Jones ; with an introduction by William Job Collins.

Jones, Robert, Sir, 1857-1943.

Date:: 1907

Credit: A text-book of mental and sick nursing : adapted for medical officers and nurses in private and public asylums / by Robert Jones ; with an introduction by William Job Collins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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$CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE General Remarks ; best to combine Hospital and Asylum experience ; time three years—Mental Nursing highest form—Various parts of Nervous System; outside or Cortex or grey matter in Brain arranged in Convolutions and mostly made up of Cells which probably i7iitiate Nervous Currents; inside or white matter made of Fibres which convey Nervous Currents—Cortex is seat of Sensations, Motor Impulses, and of Consciousness—Different kinds of Nerves—Afferent, Efferent, and Sympathetic; other Nerves are for Secretory Glands and for nourishing the Tissues and called Trophic Nerves—Weight and Gro\vth of Brain —Structure of Spinal Cord, composed also of grey and white matter—Spinal Nerves enter and leave the Spinal Cord . . 1 CHAPTER n. Brain controls the different Functions of the Body and is capable through the Nerves of modifying Nutrition—Different Stages in the process of Nutrition—The Blood, its Constituents—Especial value of white Blood-Corpuscles—The Lymph, how it Circulates and gets into the general Circulation 9 CHAPTER nr. Circulation of the Blood—Nerves of the Heart—Effect (through Vaso-motor Centre) of Nerves upon the Arteries—Pulse, Arterial and Venous Blood—Control of Heemorrhage . . . . 16$