CHAPTER VIII. 



Hygienic Precautions Against Bacterial 

 Invasion. 



Neglect of the laws of hygiene frequently 

 brings upon the human structure troubles which 

 so weaken its various organs and systems that Neglected 

 access of bacteria and development of their Hygienic Laws, 

 poisons therein becomes an easy matter. It 

 seems opportune, therefore, to add a few 

 thoughts along hygienic lines. 



Nurses, perhaps more than any other class 

 of women, should not only understand but obey 

 the laws of Nature as revealed to us in the 

 study of hygiene. We are so often questioned 

 by sick ones entrusted to our care as to why 

 certain ills have come into their lives. Too 

 often they suffer from diseases of bacteria] 

 origin brought upon themselves through 

 neglect or ignorance of hygienic laws. While 

 it is not within the province of the nurse to 

 take the place of the physician, whose duty it is 

 to explain this painful truth to his patient, she 

 can very often afterward help the sufferer by 

 suggestion, advice and example, to guard 

 against future troubles. 



In the first place, then, what do we mean by Hygiene 

 hygiene? Hygiene is that branch of science Defined. 

 which teaches us how to keep healthy. In by- 

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