A guide to district nurses and home nursing / by Mrs Dacre Craven.

  • Craven, Dacre, Mrs.
Date:
1890
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Credit: A guide to district nurses and home nursing / by Mrs Dacre Craven. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    linen thoroughly with cold water before it is washed with soap. 8. All glasses, cups, and utensils, before leaving the room, should be washed in a disinfecting fluid. 9. Disinfecting powder should be sprinkled by means of a common dredger on the bed- stead and on any spots on the mattress or bedding. 10. Nurses are often directed to oil their patients in cases of scarlet fever. Carbolic oil, one in twenty, should be used, or cam- phorated oil, and well rubbed over the patient's body with the nurse's hand. In cases of small-pox the oil should be applied by means of a soft paint-brush or feather to the eyes, mouth, nostrils, and creases of the neck, etc, 11. The nurse should herself disinfect