???? Furthermore, the ventilation of a room can be so regulated as to provide a constant and plentiful supply of fresh air without exposing its occupants to a direct draft. Where there is only one window and one door, both may be opened and a sheet or blanket hung across the opening of the door, or the single window may be opened partly from above and partly from below, which insures the entrance of fresh, cold air at the bottom and the expulsion of the heated and vitiated air at the top. The patient may be protected by a screen, or a board may be placed across the lower part of the window in such manner that a direct current of air upon the patient is prevented.
???? In very cold weather, or if conditions are not favorable to constant ventilation of the sickroom, the doors and windows may be opened? ?
wide minutes every few hours, while the patient?s body and head are well protected. There is absolutely nodanger of taking cold if these precautions are taken. Under right conditions of room temperature, frequent exposure of the patient?s nude body to air and the sunlight will be found most beneficial and will often induce sleew when other means fail.
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