Handbook Of Information On Red Cross Home Nursing

Author : American Red Cross
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537162072
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick written by American Red Cross and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the woman who wishes to protect her family from preventable diseases and is anxious to fit herself in the absence of a trained nurse to give intelligent care to those who are sick, this revision of the Red Cross text-book on Elementary Hygiene and Home Care of the Sick is particularly directed. It should appeal to men and to women who are interested in maintaining the health of their neighborhoods and communities and in affording effective cooperation to the public health authorities. Show Excerpt; and to describe some elementary methods of caring for the sick, which, however simple, are essential to comfort, and sometimes indeed to ultimate recovery. FOR FURTHER READING A History of Nursing--Dock and Nutting, Volume I. The Life of Florence Nightingale--Cook. The Life of Pasteur--Vallery-Radot. The House on Henry Street--Wald. Public Health Nursing--Gardner, Part I, Chapters I-III. Origin and Growth of the Healing Art--Berdoe. Medical History from the Earliest Times--Withington. Under the Red Cross Flag--Boardman. Report on National Vitality--Fisher, (Bulletin 30 of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health. Government Printing Office, Washington). CHAPTER I CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF SICKNESS Diseases of two kinds have long been recognized: first, those transmitted directly or indirectly from person to person, like smallpox, measles, and typhoid fever; and second,"