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    HA11RIOT K. HUNT. 381

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    worse , than the inordinate use of the regular medicines which the But Best the physicians story here are set graduall down y is learning that August in gre a Hunt at measure coming to under discard the ;

    , care of Mrs . -Mott , did beg-in to improve . " Even conversing with a iiew mind awakened hope , and it is often in this way rather than by

    . a gain , change streng of th treatment . After an that absence invalids of are three benefitted years and . " four " She months began she in to

    dul again ges -went in and a to shrewd church guess . acid This that was have the new leaving chiefl life for contributed off us / of ' blisters The to reader , thi leeches s end - . , prussic y

    mercury , , may 66 Her first long walk was to the residence of Dr . Dixwell , in Somerset Street Harriot , to pay Hunt her now bill . took " a extraordinary resolution : to study

    very medicine herself , or rather to study the laws of hygiene , the conditions of life and death among women especially , and to enforce their

    observance professionally . She was heartsick at the old-fashioned selves and practice as some many of medicine twen of t our or , as readers thirty she had can witnessed well befor remember it tried e the on innovations it a tried beloved on them sister intro- - _^

    duced hy the water y cure , by years _homoeojmth ago , y , by tlie spread of sanitary fessional knowledge man , had or materi woman ally can affected jud the how ancient great reg is ime the . Any change unpro , by

    merely comparing the treatment he ge or she received when a child and the treatment which he or she would receive now in a case of severe

    Tised illness to , particularl be covered y in fever clo » sel or with in infectious blankets disorders in . a Such room patients whose y many

    . burned windows nig were ht and always day up . hermeticall The problem y sealed noiv with , and the , where best doctors a hot and fire

    . nurses is how to secure as free a current of air as possible , without chilling the sick person ; and the windows are frequentl taken to y opened shield near him

    _, liis bed , even in winter , due precautions being from draught . Miss Niglitingale observes , in her lately published * ' Notes upon Nursing :

    ''—. . - ' We must not forget what , in ordinary language , is called ' In-. frequentl fection ; '— y follow a thing the of very which practice people in are regard generall to it y which so afraid th that ey oug they ht

    to avoid . Nothing used to be considered so infectious or contagious as small-pox ; and people not very long ago used to cover up patients with heavy bed clothes , wMle they kept up large fires and shut the

    .. windows . Srnall-pox , of course , under this regime , is very ' infectious ' . They People have are somewhat ventured wiser to cover now the in their patient management s liglitly and of this to keep disease the .

    . windows open ; and we hear much less of the ' infection , ' of smallwisdom pox than on we the used subject to do of . infection But do peop ' in fevers le in — our scarlet days fever act with , measles more ,

    . etc . —than their forefathers did with small-pox ? * * * True

    .. nursing air from ignores open windows infection , , with excep u n to re prevent mitting at . tention Cleanliness to th e and pati fresh ent ,

    Ha11riot K. Hunt. 381

    HA 11 RIOT K . HUNT . 381

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/21/