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Hfoglhtal Iluttftttg Ffltvvqx The Hospital\ Dec. 19, 1891. Extrx Supplement. HfoglHtal" iluttftttg ffltvvQX. Being the Extra Nubsing Supplement of "Tiie Hospital" Newspaper. Contributions for this should be addressed to the Editor. The Hospital, 140, London, and should have the word Supplement " " Strand, W.O., Nursing plainly written in left-hand top corner of the envelope. j?n passant. TTeNBY TITTLE-TATTLE.?"This Nursing Institute at Tenby is a very cliquey affair," said Dr. Lock to the CURE FOR HYSTERIA.?A nurso, whose name wo Pembroke Board of Guardians at their late meeting ; and the Board Dr. who is one of their shall not give, has been had up before her Board for agreed with Lock, Medical an hysterical patient with a wet towel. The Board Officers, and decided that he was not forced to have pauper pickingfound attended district nurse. Then the charge of ill-usage not proven, but asked the nurse patients by the Dr. Lock n?t to resort to the same method of treatment again. We complained that the nurse had been two days in the town Consider the nurse got off easily, for such violent treatment before he heard anything about her, and that she prescribed ^?uld certainly never be used except under medical direction, for the patients. All this savours very much of provincial nere are no caBes which need Buch?careful nursing as those jealousy and petty Btrife ; but there is one serious point? hysteria ; there are no cases' of which nurses comprehend did the nurse really prescribe for the patients ? This is an ess- Perhaps when asylum training is open to nurses as a accusation so serious as to need the immediate attention ?0tnpletion of their education, we may hope that they will of the Institute, and an authoritative and conclusive answer. etter understand how to attend to nervous, hysterical, and Certainly aomeone ha3 been wanting in tact, even if nothing Cental cases. worse has happened. HORT ITEMS.?Miss to whom the OF ST. VERONICA.?As many of the readers Josephine Wake, success of the of The Hospital have asked for information about the Brighton District Nursing Society is is abroad for her health.?The . of St. Veronica, the following short account mayibe of largely due, goiDg gross at the Preston Doll Show were ?105 the nurse V^erest them. Its objects are three in number : I. To takings ; rin a dolls were much admired.?The the Midwives' bond of union among those who are engaged in the Secretary, ^ork would be to of nursing the sick. II. To aid the spiritual life of its Institute, 12, Buckingham Street, Strand, glad send blanks to midwives or nurses them under the peculiar and special difficulties of their monthly who will fill ^mbersties. In with answers of mothers to the : "Inhow IIJ. To help its members to realise that nursing the question many 18 of confinements have been attended a a and should be as your you by doctor, a j properly religious work, performed abour his a medical a or a of love. The rules for the members are f9W, but assistant, student, midwife, neighbour ; and what did ?"?Sister Harriet Rose has received a NJt, an(j are 6peciaiiy formed to help nurses in their you pay Pltitual life, the founder of the Guild having had practical grant from the S.P.C.K., towards the Cottage Hospital at ^Perience of a nurse's difficulties during his connexion with Mortate, to which she is shortly going out.?Dr. Little con- Petals. Further particulars can be obtained from the stantly employs a blind Masseuse.?We hope to give as usual ??retary, Miss F. Robcrtson-Macdonald, 9, Great Bedford this year brief accounts of how Christmas was kept in the tteet, Bath. hospitals all over the kingdom. Will Matrons and nurses please send us these accounts as early as possible, written NEW HOME AT GLASGOW.?Mr. John Wilson on (2\ briefly, and on one side of the paper only ? a new home in ??Vk ^ecem^er 4th, opened nursing connection LASGOW SICK POOR NURSING ASSOCIATION.? ^ Glasgow Western Infirmary. By the additional A course lectures on is delivered uings forty-seven new bedrooms have been provided, systematic of Nursing the to the nurses of the above and etehty-seven separate bedroomB for the cursing during winter, Association, staff1*1^' to which all ladies are invited. The course on ^he building,'which is oblong, comprises three flats, began Tuesday the 10th of November, at p.m., and will be ?roun<* ^00r are "tuated the Sisters' drawing- evening, eight at the same hour. The room?n nursea' recreation and rooms. continued every Tuesday'"evening Th d sitting-room, reading is a list of the lectures to be after and are a following given ?r sitting-room richly furnished, " ^rawing-ro?m Christmas 5th?Dr. R. Cowan Less, The Pulse. *)lano*or'e being iQ the former and a cottage piano in the :?January sittfo External Treatment of Fever." r??m* AN the rooms are The Respiration. January *0 d large and airy. Mr. Wilson, 0^ and Rsst in some the home said 12th?Dr. R. H. Parry, "Position of t, aring open, that it long been the desire e Affections." 19th?Dr. R. H. man?gers to have the Nurses' Home large enough to Surgical January Parry, acco " them te the whole Wounds and some of the causes which prevent heal- at*d of the nursing Btaff on the premises, jj.m? R. H. and be observed that the home was detached from ing." January 26th?Dr. Parry, "Operations the " 2nd?Dr. H. St. Clair General ."^hey could easily understand how beneficial,this Shock." February Gray, n Rules for Patients to Accouchement. Rules the interests of the patients and the nurses, Health. prior ^he* l,0 their and Wou^ k? com- for Nurses. Antiseptics meaning fort ti?6 found replete with every necessary Monthly ro?ms and bedrooms had been furnished application to Monthly Nursing." February 9th?Dr. H. ^ith *G " St. Clair Choice and preparation of a room. ?at ma^xnS the nurses feel thatithey were indeed Gray, Lying-in homVleW6 Diet of Patient. Care of Patient Feb- ^>ro^essor Buchanan said that there was no wonder during Convalescence." good " 16th.?Dr. H. St. Clair Gray, The Child. fC?om?0^ation was required, because the type of ruary Newly-born ^irse a Diseases of the and their c^ange(i somewhat to what it used to^be. Nowa- Newly-born Treatment. Artificial day8 th of Infants." Extra lectures Were talented and ol Feeding if necessary : Dr. aild highly great intelligence, " car6'0111868?Ut t^? Caldwell of and Oot ^oct?r'8 wiehes to the utmost. They could Smith, Hygiene Infancy School Life." Dr. extrie^ R. Cowan "Foods and Drinks. a nursea that calibre and upbringing could Lees, The necessity for acc(fCC^ mixed Diet. Dr. R. H. on USC(* *n ^ays *? con" Digestion." Parry, "Symptoms sideredT^w^atWhen Cerebral and Diseases. How to observe and 't Was c.'ent- the patients enjoyed these benefits Spinal report ^ them." Dr. St. Clair "The Incubator?methods of nurses should have them. Pro- Gray, ^ssor Premature and Sickly Infants. The Choice of a Wet Mr. raising -^derson, Dr. Paterson, M'Ewen, and Both the nurses and consider others ' ais ? Nurse." ladies of Glasgow may SP?^?? ftnd then the were tea. company provided with themselves privileged to be able to attend such a complete course of lecturrs, Ixviii THE HOSPITAL NURSING SUPPLEMENT. Dec. 19, 1891. form praotical utility. Some are made to be used with any ^Lectures on Wart) Morft a of dressing Surgical of needle, e.g. (fig. 2), which represents pair a being an& murstng. forceps, which may also be used as needle holder, the needle fita. Alexander M.D. F.R.C.S.E. adapted with a longitudinal groove into which By Miles, (Edin.), used Figures 3 and 4 represent two forms of needle holder can Lecture XXXIX.?NEEDLES AND TREPHINING by ophthalmic surgeons. The Hagedorn needle holder INSTRUMENTS. only bo used with the flat-bladed needles employed by that Needles are employed to sew up wounds, whether made by aurgeon. accident, or by the knife in the course of an operation. Some Instruments1 used in Trephining the Skull.?The con- an skull surgeons prefer a straight needle, which differs from ordi- operation known as trephining or trepanning the nary sewing needle, in having the blade [somewhat flattened Fig.Tig. 1. from side to Bide, and the eye considerably larger. Many t?se the half-curved while the most needle, perhaps frequently 3333 on account of the ease employed ia the curved needle, greater S. Fig. 6. Fig. 4. Fig. and rapidity with which sutures may be inserted by it (fig.l). in sista in the removal of a circle of bone from the vault, or to order to obtain access tojthe contents of the cranium, the facilitate the elevation* of depressed fragments when skull has been fractured. The instruments used in the suc- the cessive steps of the are these: (1) A razor of operation to ordinary kind, with which to shave the region of the head Fie. 5. to be operated upon ; (2) a scalpel, or small bistoury, the incision through the tissues overlying the bone; (3) with which to raise the pericraniu111* periosteum separator, U as the covering of the skull bones is called (fig. 5); (4) . hooks to retract the of the wound ; (5) disse edges scalp ft8? ing forceps (fig. G) may be found useful in this operation, JS7 Fig. 2. 9? Fia. 7. Fia. 7a. ^ are a*moa' every ordinary surgical operation; Fio, 3.
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