The reports of the nurse to the physician, and the observations of the physician, should always be made in an adjoining room, and the mind of the patient not be distracted by details of symptoms, and of the nurse’s business. Changes which take place after the visit of the medical attendant, should be immediately reported, and in all that regards the administration of the medicines, and the general system of treatment, the nurse should scrupulously obey the instructions of the medical advisers, not only as the most likely means of promoting the speedy recovery of the patient, but to remove from herself all responsibility and blame. At the same time, she should not withhold her opinion, in regard to the effect of the medicines administered, and in her conferences with the medical advisers, should suggest whatever appears likely to be useful. Nurses, according to the length of a disease, are paid by the day, week, or month; and as boarders in the family, they ought not to take advantage of the sympathy which induces the relatives of the sick to afford them every indulgence, so as to involve unnecessary or wanton expenses; but consider the interest of the family, whose affliction requires their attendance, as their own. The usual payment of a nurse in London, is from 10s. 6d. to 15s. per week, according to the circumstances of the parties, and of the case. Nurses who have to compound and administer Family Medicines must be prepared with proper scales and weights; and with graduated glass measures, such as are used by Apothecaries; according to the following TABLES OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. _Measure of Fluids._ 1 gal. measure (cong.) contains 8 pints, 1 pint (O.) 16 ounces, 1 ounce (f. ℥.) 8 drams, 1 dram (f. ʒ.) 60 minims, (_m._) _Weights of Dry Substances._ 1 pound (lb.) contains 12 ounces, 1 ounce (℥.) 8 drams, 1 dram (ʒ.) 60 grains, (gr.) 1 scruple (℈.) 20 grains, or 1-3d of a dram. It is customary to distinguish quantities of fluid from dry substances, by prefixing the letter f. (fluid) when an ounce or dram is mentioned in medical works, as may be seen in the first of these tables. The following table of the gradations of doses of medicines for _different ages_, will in general be found pretty correct, and ought never to be deviated from, except by professional advice. If at the age of _maturity_ the dose be _one dram_, the proportion will be at From 14 to 21 years, 2 scruples, 7 14 half a dram, 4 7 1 scruple, 4 15 grains, 3 half a scruple, 2 8 grains, 1 5 grains, 6 months 3 grains, 3 2 grains, 1 1 grain. TOAST AND WATER.