Quiet in a Sick Room

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1875

Quiet in a Sick Room.

In country places, when a neighbor is taken sick all the friends go to see him and offer to render assistance. They often do great harm by entering into conversation with the invalid, or other members of the family; no matter if they occupy another room and only whisper, the sick person is sensitive and hears it, and must suffer, no matter how slow he is to complain. The sick often need rest and quiet more than any treatment, and ought to have it. Never, when with the sick, do anything in haste, nor appear excited and anxious, for invalids notice these things and are pained by them. Never read to a sick person when he is too ill to read himself.—Ex.