Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing - Carmen Sylva Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Q f jj cA f oootzi ooo Not 'till seven o'clock in the morning they don't. And then all they do is wash you and give you some breakfast and wash you and clean the windows and then you can rest. You can until they clean the room. And then you can rest until they want to clean the bathroom. I canlt: Not while hospitals use tin basins. I canlt. Certainly I'm not jumpy. I'm fine. I like hearing the tin basins banged around. And I don't mind a bit if the nurse sings. It doesn't make me nervous. And after they get the floor scrubbed I can sleep while they clean them, and they will take out the rugs and clean them, and that's very considerate. They understand. They know I'm resting. Theylll wait until I'm asleep and bring them back and drop them beside my bed with a nice, dull thud. But I don't mind. I'm fine, and then I'll get my rub. That's grand! All up and down my spine, and then I get sleepy again. And then the nurse tip-toes over and pulls down the shade, and then she moves all the furniture and washes a few tin things, and then she goes to lunch. Well, supposing she leaves the door open, I can get up and shut it, can't I? Ilm not sick, am I? I'm just in for a rest and after I shut the door I can go to sleep. I can till the telephone rings. I know they have orders not to, but anyone can make mistakes. And they have to send up llowers. Even if there is a sign on my door, Patient Sleeping. It doesn't say rest, or don't wake her, does it? I'm not complaining. After lunch I can rest, unless the doctor comes. Well . . . I can rest when he goes, I ought to be able to. It's quiet here. It says so in the street, Hospital, Quiet Pleasef, There is a little riveting next door, but who minds? I do, but I can't stop progress. I can't stop the radio. It sure was a swell idea to bring a radio into the hospital. I wonder who thought of that? I,d like to meet him some day and slip him a nice little kiss. But I don't mind it, and I don't mind the visitors across the hall. They have to shout. Thatls cheering the patient up. They canlt come in a hospital and let him think he's sick, can they? They have to shout. They have to be hearty. Sure they do. So stop biting the bed-clothes. After dinner you can rest. After your dinner, and your bath, and your milk of magnesia. Then you can rest. You arenlt nervous, are you? You aren't going to let a little thing like a rest cure upset you, are you? Certainly, Ilm not. I'm calm. Iim swell, l'm not screaming, I'm resting! ESSAY ON MAN The hart was the first pump ever invented. It never stops beeting as long as we're lucky. It pumps the blood through vanes and arteries, depending on weather its coming or going. If you axsidently cut one of your blud vessels and know a lot about fizzeology you can tell rite away weather its a vane or an artery, thus sattisfying your curiosity even if it don't make you feel any less nerviss. If you are not quite sure how you feel, all a doctor has to do is lisen to your hart to help you find out. If he tried to lissen on your rite sides he's proberly not a good doctor. We are born with 2 lungs and if we have any less its impossible. They helps us to breath all day and at night they breethe for us. If it wasn't for the lungs the air wouldant have any place to go and our whole sistern would be full of drafts. The stummick receeves all your food but it probably doesant enjoy it as much as you do. No matter how polite and well educated you are your stummick also rimes with jelly. Between your neck and your legs you are known as your trunk, probably because allmost all of the rest of you is packed there. The neck separates the head from our shoulders and helps us to look sideways in a hurry. It is one of the last things we learn to wash of our own free will. The legs are what distinguish short people from tall ones, so even if we are all born equal, later on in life we are more equal sitting down then standing. People probably resemble each other more on the inside then what they do on the outside, being why we use the outside to recognise each other, specially from our necks up. Sixfy Q .X mftlscli 5956 1 - nfflfni is nn :hr rzfwf tcnclffvf? lf' ' F , ., 1 .. 'Y- .llirrvfpafl ra tri? llflfw' ' . . , ', 'editi- ,tluf '1e I V .. .214 Panmf lkf lo gklfh- Youljjjuf Surfwe Tbcrr's nm such unl1c3x1b5ff Mit. K1 Maui. A 0501. I A sm ual U was cxtrcmcnp cu Tumzng an call. lc!! than st lnfrruciofg hm Srudm: ecsgnfm . Surgimf lnsmi. gf Sludmff W r.. . Swami tfurncnz. Shin fmiratf Forcnssn qc, ,Jai B Dad lr si: ft. oy: IJRDZ j Foffmdn. -.xx-i. ' df gon .. .

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to Q QOOCZI l I I l ,lf W5 ig Q0 ffl l 1 I Q . it an rumor A BIT or WIT Mary Seannell: Stomatitis is inflammation of the stomachf' Irene Milliovies: Is this a hat or a coin collection plate? fupon picking up Betty Fluck s new Easter bonnetj. On the chart: 'zfhe child was brought to the room by a nurse on a wheel-chair. Laura Sl0MdZ'.' A tongue twister IS an essential 1t61'11 for the care of an ether patient. Vivienne Stein fUpon enterlngna room during her first week on duty, as a probie,', to discover that a patients visitor had faintedjz lust a minute, Illl get a nursef' Margaret Sclzlenlq: Inflammation of the bladder is cystosisf' Stella Wentzel CUpcon .calling the oFHce to inquire whether it was all right for a patient to go homey: Is it all right for Dr. Febbraro to leave?,' Eleanor Spanier: Never touch articles with your fingers, use a thermostat? Ann Zrinslqy: If there are any orders, give themf, Irene Opalelq: If the baby does not digest its milk, it should be boiled. Frederica Coury: The only sure way of detecting tuberculosis is by X-Ray or with a horoscope. Mary lane Hallman: There are two kinds of thermometers: the Fahrenheit and the Centipedef, SOLILOQUY OF A MODERN HAMLET T.B. or not T.B.g that is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the lungs to suffer The rales and raspings of contagious phthisis Or to take steps against a sea of troubles, And by due treatment end them .... 'Tis A consumption devoutly to be shunned .... When he himself might his quietus halt, With simple chest X-Ray, who would do else? THE HUE OF THE ERYTHROCYTE Time was when portlv Doctor Lance Could spot anemia at a glanceg But his most fertile source of tips Is blocked since woman paints her lips. So he a fingertip must probe in To estimate her hemoglobin, And Finds oft times the ruddy paint Makes woman look like what she ain't. REST CURE Iim all right. Sure I am. I'm Fine, I am. I've been a little nervous but I'm all rilghtdnow. Im having a rest cure and I canlt see anybody. That s what they tell me. Only t he octor and the day nurse and the head nurse and the tray boys and three or four orderlies: And all I have to do is eat and sleep and not worry about anything and rest. And thats just what I'm going to do. And a hospital is just the place to do it in. No one disturbs you. Fifty-nine Fix s I '13 jg' , yy ' of

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