Note 66 — III. THE GENERAL AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF THE DYING.

Miss Nightingale’s observations on whispered conversation in the room, or just outside the door, at p. 26 of her “Notes on Nursing,” have great value and a wide application. On these points in the management of the dying chamber Professor Paradys has the following: “Sed præterea adhiberi hoc loco moderatæ sensuum externorum impulsiones utiliter possunt, quæ vividiores phantasmatum impressiones obscurent: vitari itaque nimiæ tenebræ et silentia nimis alta debent, concedi contra modica lux, permitti notæ amicorum voces, immo excitari debent lenes, placidi, animum blande demulcentes affectus.” (p. 74.)