The art of medicine giving: BJN 100 years ago.

摘要

The following article appeared in the BJN in February 1908 as the prize winner in the journals 'Practical Point on Nursing Competition'. The winner was a Miss Margaret K Steele of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh:'Which of us in the past memories of childhood do not remember the horror of medicine taking! Far back, almost hidden on the shelf of early years, there still standthe cracked and dusty jars of early recollections, the shade of Dr Gregory, the ghost of Chavasse! Oh, flavour of pink powder, wallowing in jam deftly secreted in a shiny rat tail and brought to us by Grandmamma, to the high wide bed with the flapping rose bestrewn dainty hangings. How we loathed it. Even Grannie's sweet placid face was pallid! Years have not sufficed to wash away the taste, the very shape ofthe little china mug with its wreath of forget-me-nots is with us still. Alas, no vision of a pretty room, no gleam of shining silver or rustle of silk frocks can remain in the little sick folks' minds of today, but surely they will remember "nurse" and the way she gave them nasty meddie.