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Life in the sick-room

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Life in the sick-room

Harriet Martineau

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Written from the couch where illness kept her for years, Martineau's essays turn the sick-room into a field of observation. Sympathy to the invalid, nature seen from a window, temper, becoming inured, the power of ideas when the body fails. One of the first great books on the inner life of illness. Company for anyone confined, and for those who love them.

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13 chapters

  1. 1LIFE IN THE SICK-ROOM.
  2. 2CONTENTS.
  3. 3TO——
  4. 4THE TRANSIENT AND THE PERMANENT IN THE SICK-ROOM.
  5. 5SYMPATHY TO THE INVALID.
  6. 6NATURE TO THE INVALID.
  7. 7LIFE TO THE INVALID.
  8. 8DEATH TO THE INVALID.
  9. 9TEMPER.
  10. 10BECOMING INURED.
  11. 11POWER OF IDEAS IN THE SICK-ROOM.
  12. 12SOME PERILS AND PAINS OF INVALIDISM.
  13. 13SOME GAINS AND SWEETS OF INVALIDISM.
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