The authoress hints at the personal qualities and outward exterior deemed desirable in a nurse.
A woman with a healthy, cheerful countenance, with sound woman who entrusted with the care of the helpless and infirm.
A note suggests that Qualities of the mind and spirit are then considered.
A timid and inefficient woman will be apt to leave the room upon any emergency, wholly from her want of firmness and spirit. Lowspirited and superstitious women are perhaps of all others the most unsuitable for this important office; those who are prone to mischievous' forebodings, to indulge in ideas of lucky or unlucky Gays and circumstances, should be carefully excluded from the sick chamber.. Nurses are particularly attached to such forebodings; even a crow flying across a window, or the cat sitting with her back to the fire, fic, etc, by them is considered ominous of some future ill.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.