The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, March 20, 1903, Image 7

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Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root is not rec ommended for everything but if you have kid ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found just the remedy you need. 11 has been tested In so many ways, in hospital work, in private pracbce, among the helpless too poor to pur chase relief and has proved so successful in every case that a special arrangement has been made by which all readers of this paper who have not already tried it, may have a sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling more about Swamp-Root and how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper and send your address to Dr. K i! mer&;CY. Bing-i lamton, N T Y The seguia* fufy uerr. aro no,<if>ot Swami -.^ot, dot In/Sizes ril/ld OV r ><A CTi gg'StS. ■:k!Ghesto5’s English *«•«-. 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W-W// /<**• it to-Uay, We mail it free. R S •ILBERMAN BROS., 122 to 128 Michigu St., Chlcsgo,lll. TALMAGE SERMON * By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. D.D., Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby terian Church, Chicago !>—■ , ,, t'hicago, March 22.—In this sermon I»r. Talmnue gives cheer and enconr- agoii.ent to the trained nurse, whose sell’ sacrificing vocation he describes as one of the highest and noblest to which her sex can aspire. The text is I Tim* othj v. 10, "Well reported of for good works * * * ji s i)e have relieved the afflicted.” Well, indeed, may a woman be re ported of for good works in such a world as ours if she have relieved the afilicted. Sueh women are sorely need ed. There is suffering everywhere— in the rich man’s palaee and the poor man’s tenement. If any woman desires to be well reported of for good works, she can attain her ambition in no sur er, better way than in relieving the af flicted. it is a glorious mission that has been chosen by these noble wom en, who are graduating as trained nurses and are going forth in their striped uniforms, like valiant soldiers, to contend with fell disease. I want to present to you my conception of what sueh a woman should he, wheth er she stands by the operating table or bends over the invalid's bed or walks through the wards of a hospital for contagious diseases or sterilizes the surgeon’s knives just before the limb js to be amputated. Every year of my residence in Chicago 1 have been asked by the officials of the different training schools to speak upon this subject. 1 take this opportunity to address not a single graduating class of trained nurses, but to speak to all the different training schools for nurses with which my pulpit comes into contact. The scope of my theme can best be realized if the hearer is led into the bumble home of the most beloved and internationally honored of all women living at the present time. Who is she? 1 will answer that question by relating an incident which happened about the year BSoS. Lord Stratford was enter taining at a London banquet many of the prominent’military ulliccrs of the British army, who had led to victory the queen's soldiers in the Crimean eon- Ilict. As a matter of curiosity, the no ble lord asked them, one and all, this question: "Who do you think, of ali the participants of the late war. will be the most honored and revered by the com ing generations?” I In asked his guests to write the names of their choice upon slips of paper and he would read the same and announce the result of the ballot. When the slips were collected, the vote was unanimous. Wonderful to state, the name which Lord Strat ford announced was not that of a gen eral. It belonged to an untith'd wom an. Her name was Florence Nightin gale. Who was Florence Nightingale? She was not a .loan of Are or Maria Theresa, who achieved victories by tin* sword. She won her universal fame by the way she bound together the bleeding lips of the wounds which the surgeon's knife had opened. She car ried in her hand not the battle torn union jack, but the white bandage. She igiiited co fiame which burst forth from the cannon's mouth. She simply lighted a little candle, with which she went from ward to ward in the field hospitals, long after the tired men were asleep. TUe Ideal Nurne. Who was Florence Nightingale? I will tell you. Sue was the heroic nurse who did not want the British people to rear for her a monument of cold marble, but instead she took the $250,- 000, which was a free will offering giv en by her countrymen, and with it built and endowed, only a short distance from Westminster abbey, the famous training school for nurses which now hears her name. This school, estab lished in 1800, is the foster mother of all the modern training schools for nurses. When a woman so honored by church and state as Florence Night ingale thinks the development of the trained nurse a work so important that she devotes to it her fortune and her consecrated energies, we need make no apology for taking as our theme this morning the qualities which are needed in the ideal nurse. The trained nurse, in the first place, must be Intelligent. She is the right arm of the physician. By that we do not mean that the trained nurse is to be a mere automatic machine and that when the physician pulls the string she is to move and when he stops pulling she is to stand still. Oh, no! She is to be far more. When Stonewall Jackson lay dying, after having been shot at Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee turned to the messenger who brought him the sail news and said: “Tell General Jack- sou be cannot and must not die. If Stonewall Jackson dies, I shall lose my right arm.” When Robert E. Lee said that, be did not assert that General Jackson bad no brain, no thinking poA’- cr. or that, as Loo's right arm, he mere ly obeyed the behests of Robert E. Lee’s brain. He meant that Jackson was, In one sense, absolutely essential to him for the best organizing and de velopment of the southern armies, as well as for helping him In the laying out of a campaign. So we find that to day the Intelligent trained nurse it* more than the mere physical right arm of the physician. She is his eyes, his hands, Ills constant helper. What the Intelligent trained nurse; is able to re port In reference to the progress of the patient to a great extent decides the physician’s diagnosis. He sees the pa tient but oiive in twenty-four hours, while she is by the invalid’s bed prac tically all the time. She can record the progress of the disease by the (light of minutes. He can only study it by the morning and the evening call. The value of (he intelligent nurse is to be found In what she sees, as well as in what she is willing to do: her useful ness is to lie enhanced by wiiat she can tell, as well as by her willingness to obey orders. A Fallacy KxpioUed. "It is high time,” Florence Nightin gale once wrote, "that the fallacy should be exploded that every woman is able to become a competent nurse.” It is high time that the standard of our training schools for nurses should be raised, that 'unworthy institutions should he crushed out and that the question of a trained nurse’s efficiency should not be decided by her ability to buy a gingham dress and to read a thermometer. It is high time that the state legislatures should place laws up on the statute books, so that the gradu ates of these different institutions should bo compelled to pass examina tions for licensure, as the doctor, the pharmacist, the lawyer or the locomo tive engineer Is compelled to do. In competent nursing has involved the loss of many a life and caused many an agonizing pain. Some time ago a dear friend of mine, a brother minis ter. had bis little five-year-old son near ly burned to death. The only way to save the child’s life was by grafting human skin upon the little one's stom ach and chest. The father and the child's two brothers volunteered to let the doctor peel the skin from their bod ies to save the baby's life. After one of the brothers—a noble lad about ten years of age—had had the skin cut off his arms and shoulders and chest the surgeon turned to the nurse and said. “Nurse, where did you get that knife?” “Out of the alcohol.” she answered. "1 *id you then place the blade In sterile water before you gave it to me?” "No,” she answered; "1 did not know you wanted me to do it." “Then,” said the surgeon, “we have cut all the skin off from this boy's body for nothing. Your criminal ignorance is to blame for this useless suffering. You should have known enough to place that knife in sterile water. You profess to be a I trained surgical nurse and a graduate ! of a nurses' college.” may fight against the cause as well'as the results of many sicknesses? Why Nurses Should Be Christians. But there is another reason why the nurse should be « Christian woman. No young girl who enters this noble profession is morally and spiritually safe unless sin* enters it with the di vine arm of protection encircling her. \Ye talk about the temptations which confront an average actor and actress. Mary Anderson, once the uncrowned queen of the American theater, lias warned young girls against the temp tations. Actors like Edwin Booth would nevi ;• allow their daughters to follow in their footsteps. Some of us would rather set* our daughters dead than hear that they were going upon the stage. But the temptations of the stage have their counterpart in the per ils. more subtle and no less menacing, of the nurse's career. The breaking of the home ties, the silence of the sick room. the evils of the hospital, the un principled lives of many physicians and the perils which must necessarily arise in the discussion of certain cases all conspire to overthrow the spirit ual life of one who may have entered the nurse's profession with the highest and noblest of purposes. All, nurse, you realize only too well that the words of warning whieii I speak have a far- reaching and overpowering meaning; therefore, if you are going to enter this profession in your own strength I beg of you to slop before it is too late. Bet ter scrub in the kitchen, stand behind the counter, be a chambermaid or any thing that is honorable, however liuni bio, rather than attempt to be a trained nurse without Christ by your side. As u noble, Christian woman a trained nurse lias the grandest opportunities for usefulness; as one who is not di vinely protected she is in weekly and daily aye, perhaps in hourly-danger of spiritual overthrow. The ideal nurse should be a brave woman. Tin* battlefield, with its storm of shot and shell, shows no greater per centage of loss of life than that found among the trained nurses in our conta gious hospitals. The soldier who charges the enemy's breastworks is looking death in the face with no brav er eye than the uniformed nurse who times the pulse of the smallpox patient or the young girl who offers to go with j the physicians into the quarantined | city affected with yellow fever. Then i there are the dangers which may affect Thus, you women about to become j trained nurses, it is of vital impor- | lance that you are intelligent and etfi- J dent. It is of vital importance that | you should know the value of fresh air utid of proper dietetics, it is of vital importance that you obey the laws of ; cleanliness and not allow your patient j to become infected. The ignorance of incompetent nurses has sent many a patient to the grave, if you volunta rily enter your noble profession intel lectually unqualified, you are commit ting a sin against the human race just •is surely ns is the ignorant switchman | who throws open the wrong switch | and sends the passenger train crashing into the freight train which has been j sidetracked. “I did not know” in the sickroom is about as criminal as "1 did not think” or "1 forgot.” In this age of line training schools for urses it is just as much every nurse’><■ business to learn bow to think right as it is to ; learn bow to do right. Cure Soul and Body. The ideal nurse should bo a Christian | woman. During the dark night, when i the black winged death angel is hover ing, wing and wing, beside the white winged birth angel, or when hi the crisis of pneumonia or typhoid the life seems to be banging by a slender thread, no intelligent nurse is so com- j peteut to bend over the bed as the one i who believes in God and prayer and the one who can ask for the divine blessing when she pours out the medi cine or places the ice bag on the fe vered brow. A great deal of Florence Nightingale's power over her patients was due to the fact that she could tell the physically helpless and the dying about the Good Physician, who was able to cure the sufferer’s soul as well as bis ltody. The Crimean soldiers had a better chance for getting well in this world when Florence Nightingale's mere presence made these rough men stop their swearing and iullueuccd many of them to turn their lips toward heaven with a beseeching prayer. We know that one of the beneficent tasks of a nurse is to inspire patients with peace of mind and of heart. There fore, is not the ideal nurse doubly fitted for her work when she can impart to the sufferer's soul a knowledge of the peace that passeth understanding? Was that nurse’s practical useful ness marred by her faith in God, about whom Dr. Banks relates this thrilling incident? During one of the bloody battles of the civil war a wounded youth was carried into the field hos pital. He tossed upon ids cot crying and moaning: “Do not let me die! Oh, I am afraid to die! Oh, I am afraid to die!” The Christian nurse walked up to his side and placed her hands firmly upon his shoulders. Then she said: “Boy, if you have to die, don’t be a coward. Die like a man!” Then, after she bad quieted him a little, she sat by bis side and begun to tell him of that Christ who was waiting to bo bis Saviour, whether he lived or died. After awhile tears of penitence rolled down the lad’s cheeks. He put his faith in Christ. Then, with perfect confidence and trust in the divine for giveness, like a little child, he went to sleep in his Saviour’s arms. Do you not feel that a Christian nurse’s prac tical usefulness is enhanced when, dur ing the coin’uleeclng hours, she can talk upon the higher, the spiritual themes of life and send her patient forth from the sickroom with noble aspirations to do right? You know ui> well ns I know that much of the sick ness of this world is due to the direct results of sin. Therefore, Is It not In one sense essential for an Ideal nurse to be a Cbristlau woman, so that she j the patients as well as the nurse, which | result from delirium. The other day 1 i read an account of a ease in which the quick wilted bravery of a nurse saved the life of a raving patient committed ! to her charge. Having stepped out of I the room for a little, when she returned she found the patient standing by bis bed with a knife in bis hand, ready to cut his throat. Instead of screaming or running away, slit; fixed her eye calmly upon his as -die said: "1 would not cut my throat with such a dull kuife as that if 1 were you. Let m * have it; I know where to get a sh ’•per one.” Tin* Ueiirious patient hesitated a mo ment. Then he handed it to her. Then she calmly turned and threw it out of the open window as she said, "Now go hack to bed or else 1 will call for help to put you there.” Ah, that was bravery! That was bravery as great as Lieu tenant < ashing exhibited when he tried to blow up ihf iron, lad ram Albemarle at Plymouth. N. or as General Fun- ston exhibited when, with a handful of followers, he invaded Aguinaldo's head | quarters and captured the chief of the Filipino armies. That is the kind of physical and moral courage which many nurses have to possess in order to fulfill the trying duties of their no ble profession. Moral Courage N'ece«*»ar>-. J But there is another way in which ! the ideal trained nurse must prove her bravery. That is when she has the moral courage to refuse to work for an incompetent physician. Some time ago one of the training schools for nurses gave this question in an examination paper: “Supposing you positively knew that if you obeyed the doctor’s or ders to give to your patient a cer tain medicine that act would kill the patient, would you give it?” Most of the students answered "No." Some an swered "Yes.” I myself believe that neither answer fully covered the duty in tlu* ease. If there should come a time—and that time will come—when a competent nurse knows that her im- tient is being cared for by an incompe tent physician, then that nurse should go to that doctor and tell him plainly what she knows and then and there refuse to work any longer under his or ders. She should do ns an officer in the United States army ought to do. As an officer in the army I must obey my commander’s orders. If I do not, then I am punished, but if I know that my commander is a drunken incompetent or is following a fatally wrong policy then I should have the moral courage to hand in my resignation or to protest to the higher authorities. That is ex actly what certain officers in the Span- ish-American war did in reference to their orders in Cuba! When the Wash ington war department wanted to keep the American army in Cuba after San tiago had been captured, all the gener als wrote a public protest to the presi dent, and that protest brought the ar my home. A trained nurse has no mor al right to work under an incompetent physician. By doing so she becomes a party to bis malpractice. She should not disobey bis orders. Two wrongs never make a right. She should refuse to work for him at all. The ideal nurse should bo a happy woman. Happy! Why? Because, us King Solomon wrote. “A merry heart docth good like n medicine.” The rip pling laugh makes the croaking owls and the bats and the vermin, which love to tly or walk or crawl about in the midnight gloom, flee for their lives. Happy! Why? Because good cheer is contagious as well as infectious. The nurse's smile in the sickroom has the same curative qualities as the nun bath or an alcoholic rub. And yet there are i I i i i j I i some nurses who go about their tasks with the soured visage of an undertak er's assistant rather than with the ra diant face of one who is trying to cheer up those who are pain racked and de pressed. They never seem to realize that a true nurse’s facial expression should be full of sunshine as well us her fingers' touch gentle and true. But. outside of her duty toward the patient, there is another reason why the ideal nurse should be happy. Her life is one of self saerifiee. It is a life which has in jt a sweet consciousness that she is trying to help her follow men. It is not a life of mere money making, as many suppose. After the trained nurse has taken out her legiti mate expenses she lias little money to save. It is a life of sweet and noble self sacrifice. In Mr. II. l'. Fahne stock. a wealthy merchant, gave $100,- 000 to endow a training school for nurses because he had seen two nurses tenderly care for bis dying wife. He knew they were worth all the help that he gave; he knew that the ideal nurse whom such an institution would devel op was a woman capable of self sacri fice, a woman who trusts in him who said. "He that loscth ills life for my sake shall find it." The Joy of Self Sacrifice. Oh, the transcendent joy of the Christian nurse's sacrifice for others! It is the same joy that came to that young girl of Dr. Keigwin's church at Wilmington, Del. Her little brother had a diseased limb. The flesh over the bruised bone would not heal. The doc tors told the father that unless they could get some little child who was willing to have her llesh grafted on to his he must die. The young sister heard what the doctors wanted. She offered to lie down and let her tender flesh he taken. The father refused. He felt that in the dangerous operation both children might die. She finally won his consent. There, for three long weeks, the little girl lay with her arm bound to her brother’s while the flesh was healing his wound, and during all the time, with a happy smile, she kept saying: “Brother is going to get well. Yes, my brother, because I am lying here, is going to get well.” Young wo men who are about to enter the nurse’s profession, if you are to become idea! nurses, this is to be your joy. You will be happy because you will know that your sacrifice and devotion and faithfulness will save other lives. You will have the sweet consciousness that you have been able to lead a sufferer back from the dark valley of the shad ow of death, or, if you have to close the eyelids of the dead, you will know that you have been able to place their hands in the saving hand of Jesus. Christian women about to enter the no ble profession of trained nurses, I con gratulate you. I give to you a gospel salutation. I wish you godspeed. I have chosen this subject of the “Ideal Nurse” for two reasons: First, I want to remove tin* prejudice which is harbored in many minds against hospi tals and trained nurses. Some people think that a hospital is only an adjunct to a cemetery and that a trained nurse in a hospital is not nearly as compe tent or faithful as the average mother caring for her sick child. The simple fact is many a lifp .vould have been saved if the patient had been sent to a 1 ospital instead of being kept at home under the parents' charge. Some time ago ! was called to see a young girl sick with pneumonia. The pa tient lay in a room that was damp .•iinl cold. The mother's every action proved she was incompetent to care for tin* in valid. I goutly told her so and suggest ed that sin* send her daughter to a lies pital, where she could he properly cared for. She answered that that was what the doctor wanted her to do, but she could not and would not let her daugh ter be under any other care but her own. Within a few days the young girl died. I officiated at the funeral. They had a beautiful casket and plen ty of flowers, but the whole service seemed to me a mockery. I do not say that mother killed her child, but I do say that if she had been taken to the hospital and received the right kind of treatment the daughter might have re covered. Second, I have preached this sermon because I want to throw wide open a door of usefulness for Christian wom en. Nursing is essentially woman’s work, it is as much a woman’s work as earing for a baby is a mother’s work. Therefore I want to show to young women a field in which they can not only make an honorable living, but in which they can do an infinite amount of good. Sisters and daughters, Chris tian girls, it is time for some of you to stop learning to play upon the piano when you have no musical talent and trying to paint upon china when you have no artistic talent and learn to do something practical in the higher train ing schools for nurses. You will there find a womanly vocation. You will find here a course of study which will lit you to become better wives and moth ers if tlu* fragrance of the orange blos soms should ever woo you to the mar riage altar. May God bless today the memory of Florence Nightingale! And may the bandage an'u the nurse's cool hand upon the fevered brow ever be accompanied by the earnest Christian prayer of the ideal nurse. ICopyrlght. 1903. by Louis Klopsch.] Hiiiiihm' Kern Hetort. Alexandre Dumas was dining oiie day at the house of a wealthy banker in company with General X. At des sert the conversation turneij on the ex istence of tied. “Come now, gentlemen,” said the general, “how is it that people bother themselves about such trifles at thb time of day? I, for my part, ccnnot imagine the existence of such a mys terious entity as the Supreme Being.” '•General,” replied Dumas, “I keep at home two hounds, a couple of monkey* and a parrot which are exactly of your opinion.” Health “ For 25 years I have never missed taking Ayer’s Sarsaparilla every spring. It cleanses my blood, makes me feel strong, and does me good in every way.” John P. Hodnette, Brooklyn, N. Y. Pure and rich blood carries new life to every part of the body. You are invigorated, refreshed. You feel anxious to be active. You become strong, steady,courageous. That’s what Ayer’s Sarsaparilla will do for you. 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