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Example sentences for "sick room"

  • She loathed a sick room; but she was fond of him, even when he was ill.

  • I know how to behave in a sick room, ma'am.

  • When Ike was ushered into the sick room, he immediately handed his young mistress’ letter to Mr. Wilmot, who eagerly took it, for he recognized the handwriting of his idol.

  • She seems peculiarly adapted to a sick room, and will do him more good than a dozen physicians.

  • Such were the scenes which daily occurred in Julia’s sick room until at last, from utter exhaustion, she became still, and for many days she lay in a dreamy kind of sleep.

  • That one should be cautious about entering a sick room in a state of perspiration, as the moment you become cool your pores absorb.

  • Vinegar boiled with myrrh, sprinkled on the floor and furniture of a sick room, is an excellent deodorizer.

  • For a sick room, a carpet is perhaps the worst expedient which could by any possibility have been invented.

  • The extraordinary habit of reading to oneself in a sick room, and reading aloud to the patient any bits which will amuse him or more often the reader, is unaccountably thoughtless.

  • A slop-pail should never be brought into a sick room.

  • One of the most important essentials in a sick room is perfect cleanliness of the room, the bed linen and clothing of the patient.

  • It should never be left exposed in a sick room or near waste pipes.

  • Never visit a sick room when in a violent perspiration or with an empty stomach, as the system at that time is more susceptible to contagion.

  • The technic of bathing, together with the location, furnishings, and cleanliness of the baby's sick room, will be taken up in later chapters.

  • A south or east exposure is generally best for a sick room.

  • Closets opening into the room, bureaus, and chiffoniers should be emptied of the belongings of other members of the family, to prevent people from tiptoeing into the sick room at all hours to remove garments.

  • Superfluous articles add to the care of a sick room, and in consequence they should be removed at the outset.

  • Perhaps you will see how this might help on a hot summer's day and what a comfort a fireless cooker might prove in a sick room.

  • The Room, Its Order and Arrangement The hangings and furniture of a sick room should be of a kind that can be washed and easily kept clean.

  • Because the chlorine absorbs the hydrogen of the stale air; and by this means removes both the offensive smell and the infection of a sick room.

  • Vinegar boiled with myrrh, or camphor, sprinkled in a sick room, will entirely correct putridity.

  • For many, many long weeks, I might say months, my daily life was lived in Carrie's sick room.

  • What should we do without you, when you know all about nursing, and understand a sick room so well?

  • You know our own and the children's sleeping rooms are very simply furnished, but a sick room should be still more severe.

  • All thorough nailing adds greatly to the strength, and will alone prevent the creaking of the boards, so annoying in a sick room and so discouraging to burglars.

  • When he is brought face to face with the stern realities of the "sick room," the Osteopath begins his inquiries and follows with his questions just far enough to know what division of the body is in trouble.

  • I live, because experience has taught me the unavoidable demands when in the "sick room.


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