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then quietly brushing them up with a hand-broom. A table not liable to injury, a small wicker basket with compartments to hold the different bottles of medicine and a small book in which to write all the physician’s: directions, two baskets made on the same plan to hold glasses or cups, screens to shade the light from the eyes of the patient, a nursery-lamp with which to heat water, beef-tea, etc., a quill tied on the door-handle with which the nurse can notify others that the patient is asleep by merely _ passing the feather-end through the key-hole, several “‘ ring cushions” to give relief to patients compelled, to lie continually in one position (these cushions are circular pieces of old linen sewed together and stuffed with | bran; or pads may be used, made of cotton-batting basted into pieces of old of any size required), and a sick couch or chair, are a few of the many conveniences which ought to be in every sick-room. - Pure air in a sick-room is of the utmost importance. In illness, the poi- - goned body is desperately trying to throw off, through lungs, skin, and in every possible way, the noxious materials that have done the mischief. Bad air and dirty or saturated bed-clothes, increase the difficulty at the very time when the weakened powers need all the help they can get. Avoid air from kitchen or close closets. Outside air is the best, but, if needed, there should be a fire in the room to take off the chill. A cold is rarely taken in bed, with the bed-clothes well tucked in, but oftener in getting up out of a warm bed when the skin is relaxed. Of course any thing like a ‘¢ chill’? should be avoided, and it is not well to allow a draft or current of air to pass directly over the bed of the patient. A good way to secure a supply of fresh air, without a draft, is to have a board five or six inches wide, and as long as the width of the window; raise the lower sash, place board under it, and the fresh air finds its way in. between the sash by an upward current. In disease less heat is produced by the body than in health. This decline occurs even in summer, and is usually most evident in the early morning when the vital powers slacken, the food of the previous day having been exhausted. The sick should be watchebetween midnight and ten or a eleven in the morning, and if any decline in heat is noticed, it should be supplied by jugs of hot water. <A sick-room should, above all, be quiet, Any rustling sound, such as that of a silk dress or shoes ‘which creak, should be entirely avoided. If it is necessary to put coal on the fire, drop it on quietly in small paper sacks, or rolled in paper slightly dampened. Visiters should never be admitted to a sick-room. The necessary attendants are usu- ally a sufficient annoyance to a weak patient, and many a tombstone might truthfully and appropriately be inscribed, ‘“‘ Talked to death by well-meaning friends.” It is not generally the loudness of a noise that disturbs the sick, but the sound that produces expectation of something to happen. Some can not bear any noise. Any thing that, suddenly awakens is injurious. Never awaken a sleeping patient unless ordered to do so by the physician. In sickness, the brain is weakened with the rest of the body, and sleep strengthensit. If rest is interrupted soon after it is begun, the brain is weakened so much the more, and the patient becomes irritable and wakeful. If sleep lasts longer, he falls asleep again more readily. Never speak within the hearing of the sick, in tones which can not be fully understood. An occasional word, or murmur of conversation, or whisper, is intolerable, and occasions needless apprehension. . Few persons have any idea of the exquisite neatness necessary in a sick-