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410 PICTURES rOR THE SICK.
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valuable indications of what is necessary for tlieir recovery , and it would be well if nurses would watch , these ( so-called ) ' fancies ' closely .
the "I most have acute seen suffering in fevers j ) ( roduced and felt from , when the I p was atient a fever ( in a patient hut ) not myself being , ) able to see out of window , and the knots in the wood being the only view .
I shall never forget the rapture of fever patients over a bunch of brightcolored flowers . I remember ( in my own case ) a nosegay of wild flowers being sent meand from that moment recovery becoming more rapid .
, effect " Peop is on le tli say e the bod effect too . is Little only on as the we know mind ; about it is no the such thing in which . The we are affected bform y by colorand lihtwe do know thisthat way they have an
actual physical y effect , . , g , , " Variety of form and brilliancy of colors in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery .
or engravings " feverish But it , must or successivel even be sick slow y , ; ten variety but to hang one , e . g that one _- ., if he you up does opposite show not a p become to atient him , ten cold one , or or on twelve faint each ,
successive " It is a matter day , or of week painful , or wonder month , and to the lie sick will themselves revel in the , how variety much . painful ¦ ideas with themselves predominate th over ey think pleasurable themselves ones in ungrateful their impressions ; it is all ; they of no reason use .
The fact isthat ; these painful impressions are far better dismissed by a real laugh , if you , can excite one by books or conversation , than by any direct reasoning is what he ; or w , ants if the . patient I have is mentioned too weak to the laug cruelty h , some of inrpressioii letting him from stare nature at a "
dead wall . In many diseases , especially convalescence from fever , that wall will appear to make all sorts of faces at him ; now flowers never do this . Form argument , color . , . "will . free . _jSTo your one patient who has from watched his painful the sick ideas can better doubt than the fact any
that some feel stimulous from looking at scarlet flowers , exhaustion from looking at deei : > blue , & c . . . . We will suppose the diet of the sick to be cared for;—then this state of the nerves is most frequently to be relieved
b and y care pretty in things affording . " them a pleasant view , a judicious variety as to flowers , The uneducated are peculiarly alive to visual impression ; they
are still in the condition , of children who must be instructed by means of picture books ; and who receive such instruction with _,
walls _great of deli their ght . sick How chambers wise , therefore into a pleasant , would and it be soothing , to convert * iC _jDicture the
"book , " its pages inscribed with the promises of comfort given by God to His poor and afflicted children , and with representations of
the beautiful objects with which He has already adorned this world , their present home , —a world which He has taught us to
regard but as a dim shadow of the one to be entered by us through _, the mysterious gates of death .
This idea of surrounding the beds of the sick in hospitals and workhouses with pictures was started , I believe , a few years ago , in
a number of Chambers * Journal . I have been unable to meet with this articleand cannot therefore refer to the suggestions
which it may contain , . Probably they are similar to those contained in my letteran idea frequently suggesting itself
spon-, taneously to various minds at the same time . Ideas surely ought
to be regarded as gifts from the great store-house of mind , of
410 Pictures Ror The Sick.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/50/
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