BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 



Our Duty 

 to Ourselves. 



Nature's 

 Gifts. 



Results of 

 Inactivity. 



ten. These are the nurses who despise gossip, 

 scorn deceit and all petty meanness, -and who 

 realize that personal responsibility is attached 

 as a primary link in the chain of "qualifications 

 of the good nurse." This realization keeps 

 them ever on the alert to add to this primary 

 link all the others necessary to make them not 

 only good nurses, but the best nurses possible. 



While realizing our duty towards others, do 

 not let us forget that we owe a duty to our- 

 selves also ; that we are responsible to God for 

 our own health. There are broken-down 

 nurses in the world today who ought still to be 

 in active service, but whose condition, through 

 mistaken ideas of duty, renders them a burden 

 to themselves and to others. Unselfishness is a 

 virtue, but remember also that "self-preserva- 

 tion is the first law of Nature." 



A Healthy Muscular System. — We are 

 taught when studying the muscular system that 

 Nature gives to each individual about the same 

 kind and amount of muscle ; that the difference 

 in strength as seen in different people is due in 

 part to the manner in which they are taken care 

 of, used, disused or abused. All of our organs 

 must have proper exercise in order to be kept 

 healthy, and in order also that we get from 

 them that service for which they were intended. 



If we do not use our brains in study while 

 we are young they become inactive and we 

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