Meeting I

(Study pages 1-13) Symptoms of Disease

See Care of Children, pages 153-159, for children's diseases. (Vol. XI of the Library of Home Economics.) The Sick-Room.

See Household Hygiene, Ventilation and Heating, Home Nursing, Harrison, pages 1-13. ($1.00, postage 10c.)

Meeting II

(Study pages 13-34) Care of the Patient

Make bed with draw-sheet, as described in the text. Change the bed as described. Lift patient to sitting position. Make back rest and foot brace.

Change patient from one bed to another, two methods. Change mattress with patient in bed. Make a wadding ring to relieve pressure. If possible, get a trained nurse to show how these things are done. Convalescence

Lift patient into a chair.

Topic-Amusing the convalescent and sick children.

Meeting III

(Study pages 34-62.) Baths and Bathing

Make up pitcher of water, cool, tepid, warm, etc., of the various degrees of temperature given on page 41.

Test with a bath or other thermometer and with the hand. Note how unreliable the hand may be; after the hand has been in the cold water, the tepid water feels warm, and after having been in the hot water, the tepid water feels cold.

Home Nursing, Harrison, pages 63-73. ($1.00, postage 10c.

Practical Points in Nursing, Emily Stoney, pages 83-93 ($1.75, postage 20c.) Temperature, Pulse, Giving Medicine, etc.

Obtain a clinical thermometer and take temperature a number of times, having all read the thermometer to 1-1oof a degree, and write the reading on slips of paper. Compare results. If there is any difficulty in shaking down the mercury, get a physician or nurse to show how it is done. A clinical thermometer may be purchased through the School for $1.25, or will be loaned for 10c.

Count the pulse in quarters for a second, as described, and compare results as in the taking of temperature.

Count the respiration, as directed.

Have an exhibit of medicine glasses, feeding cups, syringes, ice-caps.

Make poultices, sinapisms, flannel for fomentations, compresses.

(Select answers to the Test Questions on Part I and send to the School. Report on Meetings I, II, and III.)

Meeting IV

(Study pages 63-73) Contagious Diseases: Disinfection

See article in the supplement, also send for and read some of the following Bulletins issued by State Boards of Health:

Lansing, Michigan, "Dangerous Communicable Diseases. " Concord, New Hampshire, "Consumption." Springfield, Illinois, "Consumption" also "Practical

Disinfection." Augusta, Maine, "Contagious Diseases." Trenton, New Jersey, "Restriction of the Spread of

Infectious Diseases." These Bulletins are sent free, or for a 2c stamp. Send to your own State Board of Health, if not included in the above; to your capital city, for any Bulletins.

Meeting V

(Study pages 73-105) Surgical Work: Obstetrics

Practical Points in Nursing, Stoney, ($1.75, postage 20c.) Food for the Sick

Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent. ($1.50, postage 18c.)

Food for the Sick, French, ($1.00, postage 10c.)

Hand Book of Invalid Cookery, Boland, ($2.00, postage 16c.

Collect appropriate recipes in addition to those given • in the text.

Show dainty and suitable serving for the sick.

Meeting VI

(Study pages 105-121) Emergencies

Practice artificial respiration, as described. Make a tourniquet. Bandaging and Bandages

Practice all the bandages described. If possible, get a trained nurse to show methods. (Select answers to the Test Questions on Part II and report on Meetings IV, V, and VI.)

Bibliography

Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent ($1.50).

Fannie M. Farmer. Food for the Sick ($1.00). Edward C. French. Home Nursing ($1.00). Eveleen Harrison. Nursing ($2.00). Isabel A. Hampton.

Practical Normal Histology ($1.25). T. Mitchell Prudden. Practical Points in Nursing ($1.75). Emily A. N. Stoney. Text Book of Nursing ($1.75). Clara Week Shaw.

Magazines

The American Journal of Nursing. The Trained Nurse.

Note.-For the convenience of students the School will purchase and forward any of the above books on receipt of the price given.