Selection and Preparation of the Sick-room.—The sick-room should be on the sunny side of the house and capable of thorough ventilation. If there is a stationary basin in the room, it should be covered with paper or a board, or be kept filled with water, which must be changed often; this will prevent impure air coming through the waste-pipe should the pipe not be properly trapped. The room should be as near the top of the house as possible, for the reason that the higher we go the purer is the air, and also that if a room on the lower floor is used the germs of the disease will be carried upward. If the light is too bright, the bed should be so made that the patient will lie with the back to the window, or a screen may be put before the window. If the case is disease of the brain of the eye, the room must be darkened; the curtains so arranged that there will be no flapping when the window is open, nor flashes of light.

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