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    382 iABRIOT K. HUNT;

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    axe the only defence a true nurse either asks or needs . Wise ancl humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against

    infection . " the A last gain century , how comp it was letel a y common is blood practice -letting going out health of fashion y people ; m to

    among be bled twice a year , in spring and autumn , as a precaution against ; possible disease ! The withdrawal of healthbloodor of any blood ,

    when it is not a case of absolute necessity , is y now considered , the most cruel and most irremediable of injuries to the constitution . We

    inch could drugs of hardl her y . that " now Again hear not , of the positivel a excessive lady who use had of been drugs is " passing cupped , nay , over the use every from of

    any are y necessary , away when the most the atrocious enlightened black medical draught practice the poisonous ; yet we mercury can all the remember

    deadlynarcotic Christmas , formed and that heavy when item the s household in , a heavy _consisted bill at mainl each , recurring of little y

    , delicate children . That very inuch yet remains to be done , that the old notions and

    the old practices lurk yet amongst us in innumerable holes and corners " _unswep butknowing t by the how wholesome much has breath been of effected sanitary let knowled us sympathise ge , is too true with ;

    this , one courageous woman , who nearly thirty , years ago took warning by bitter personal experienceand set herself to work to see if there

    were not laws of life and health , supreme over us all , by obedience to which sickly and useless women could be restored to their natural

    spheres of duty . Her sister Augusta joined in her plan : the ages of the two were

    respectively thirty and twenty-seven : they were well known and respected In Boston , came of an honorable family , and had fair

    outward conditions for work " Deeper consciousness of the * purpose of life now took possession of us ; we continued our medical studies

    with unabated zeal . Our previous experience was of great use . heretofore Medical treatment been our , rather lesson than . an Medic investi ation gation we had of hyg seen ienic rather laws , had too

    much . of . General and special anatomy- —shall I ever forgive the Harvard Medical College for depriving me of a thorough knowledge

    of that science , a knowledge only to be gained by witnessing dissections in connection with close study and able lectures ? Physiology ,

    with all its thousand ramifications , had a fascination for me beyond all other branches—use , abuse—cause , effect- —beginning and

    endall were significant in the light of a science undarkened by technicalities , doubtful assumptions , tedious dissertations , controversies , and

    contradictions . My mind was greedy of knowledge , the more I investigated the more I was _delihtedwonderstruck ; and I was often _,

    g , startled by the rays of light that unexpectedly shone during my research . Setting aside medicationwe endeavored to trace diseases to

    , violated laws , and learn the science of prevention . That word '

    preventive' seemed a gTeat word tome ; curative was small beside it . "

    382 Iabriot K. Hunt;

    382 _iABRIOT K . HUNT ;

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/22/