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PICTURES FOR THE SICK. 409
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Has It Ever Occurred To Artists And Amat...
ably ; but not the less so truthful studies , in clear bright color , o £ beautiful natural objects—calmcheerful landscapes ; sunrises and
, sunsets ; mountains and lakes ; the sea-coast , with its picturesque masses of rock , its flat expanses of sand , its boats and ships and
de flights blue of white skab winge ove d them gulls ; ; trickling corn-fields str , with eams wide overhung stretch . es with of _,
bosk ep y leanness y ; and rich meadows knee deep in grass , , and brilliant as a Persian carpet with their myriad flowers . Studies of brilliantly
and tenderly tinted flowers , cultivated or wild ; violets on which the dew still lingers ; tufts of " pale primroses , " suggestive of their
delicate vernal odour , the very essence of spring's perfume ; masses of hawthornamidst which nestles a green mossy bird s-nest ,
crimson sprinkled snowy heather with dots , alternating of silvery lichen its purp , and le and filled blood with - blue red - beaut green y eggs with % _,
silver-grey ; green , and russet mosses , and golden furze ; till all becomea gorgeous tapestrywrought by the hand of Nature to clothe
_, , the mountain steps of God ' s rocky altar—the earth . Pull clustering spears of deep hued hollyhocks , or a handful of autumnal
leavesand berries , which might bring back memories , perchance , to the sick man or woman , of childish days spent in the country where
such flowers bloomed in the cottage garden , and such leaves and . berries were lucked from the hedgerow .
and Bu not t wh onl y enumerat p delihtful e subjects for the artist of this and class amateur ? Th to ey elaborat are countless eand , . y g ,
useful as study , but , applied as here suggested , formed for a noble use .
Amidst such pictures , beautiful texts from Scripture , and versesof hymnsall inscribed . in clear charactersso as easily to be
deciphered , by dim and weary eyes , might , be disposed witli advantage . These objects and sentences would insensibly impress
themselves upon the mind in hours of convalescence , and certainly would more beneficially influence the patient than staring at blank
walls . In sickness , and in recovery from sickness , the mind is peculiarly
susceptible to impressions from without ; how important , therefore , that the eye , so keen a medium for mental impression , should be
soothed or gently stimulated . Miss Nightingale , in her " Notes on Nursing , " makes the folio-wing
observations on this subject : — inconceivable " To any but to wliicli an old the nurse nerves or an of old the patient sick suffer , the degree from seeing would the be quite same
walls one or , the two sanie rooms ceiling . , the same surroundings , during a long confinement to •» * # -x- * * # _#
especiall " The y effect of brilliancy in sickness of color of , beautiful is hardly objects at all appreci , of variety ated . of objects , and doubtless " Such cravings patients are have usuall * fancies y called ' as the e . \ ' fancies when they of patients desire . ' two And contra often - ,
dictions _. , But much more often , their , g ( so , -called ) * fancies' are the most
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Pictures For The Sick. 409
PICTURES FOR THE SICK . 409
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/49/
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