It is always best to consult the physician as to where medicines shall be purchased, and to show the articles to him before using them, as great impositions are practiced in selling old, useless, and adulterated drugs. Always put labels on phials of medicine, and keep them out of the reach of children. Be careful to label all powders, and particularly all _white powders_, as many poisonous medicines in this form are easily mistaken for others which are harmless. In nursing the sick, always speak gently and cheeringly; and, while you express sympathy for their pain and trials, stimulate them to bear all with fortitude, and with resignation to the Heavenly Father, who “doth not willingly afflict,” and “who causeth all things to work together for good to them that love him.” Offer to read the Bible or other devotional books, whenever it is suitable, and will not be deemed obtrusive. Every woman should be trained for the office of nurse to the sick, and some who have special traits that fit them for it should make it their daily professional business. The indispensable qualities in a good nurse are common sense, conscientiousness, and sympathetic benevolence. Persons may be conscientious and benevolent, and possess good judgment in many respects, and yet be miserable nurses of the sick for want of training and right knowledge. “_Knowledge_, the assurance that one knows what to do, always gives _presence of mind_—and presence of mind is important not only in a sick-room but in every home. Who has not known consternation in a family when some one has fainted, or been burned, or cut, while none were present who knew how to stop the flowing blood, or revive the fainting, or apply the saving application to the burn? And yet knowledge and efficiency in such cases would save many a life, and be a most fitting and desirable accomplishment in every woman.” “We are slow to learn the mighty influence of common agencies, and the greatness of little things, in their bearing upon life and health. The woman who believes it takes no strength to bear a little noise or some disagreeable announcements, and loses patience with the weak, nervous invalid who is agonized with creaking doors or shoes, or loud, shrill voices, or rustling papers, or sharp, fidgety motions, or the whispering so common in sick-rooms and often so acutely distressing to the sufferer, will soon correct such misapprehensions by herself experiencing a nervous fever.” Here the writer would put in a plea for the increasing multitudes of nervous sufferers not confined to a sick-room, and yet exposed to all the varied sources of pain incident to an exhausted nervous system, which often cause more intolerable and also more wearing pain than other kinds of suffering.