The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the ski…

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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed. ✨ Florence Nightingale (1861). Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes, p.64
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