Domestic hygiene for nurses : with so much of chemistry and physics as are necessary to the reasonable understanding thereof / by Fred. J. Smith.

  • Smith, Fred. J. (Frederick John), 1857-1919
Date:
1915
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Domestic hygiene for nurses : with so much of chemistry and physics as are necessary to the reasonable understanding thereof / by Fred. J. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at any rate in the earlier stages of their career, I believe that a few in the later stages of their training would like to go a little deeper, and I am sure that a little elementary knowledge of the laws of heat, of light, of chemistry, would clothe the dry bones of hygiene with the flesh of interest, and make lectures and reading more of a pleasure and less of a burden to them all, and the purpose of this little work is to try thus to make hygiene interesting by showing how its laws are based on the much wider ones of physics, chemistry, and physiology. If one can do this, not only may a direct purpose of examination-passing be served, but by learning the laws and principles of her subject a nurse may now and again be helped to provide a second-rate substitute for a perfect article which is beyond her reach, and thus put her hygienic knowledge to a very practical use. To suit those who do, and those who do not care about “ why,” two types are used throughout this little book : the larger type should be read by all, the smaller may be left to the choice of the reader.