A Short History of Nursing
From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
By
Lavinia L. Dock, R.N.
Secretary, International Council of Nurses
In Collaboration with
Isabel Maitland Stewart, A.M., R.N.
Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing and Health, Teachers College,
Columbia University, New York
12o. Price, $3.00
This New Volume Has Been Prepared Especially for the Use of Student Nurses
It is, in effect, a condensation of the four volumes of the larger History of Nursing, prepared by Miss Dock in collaboration with Miss Nutting, a work which has been considered standard on the subject, but which, by its very nature, was too elaborate for class use. This condition has now been overcome by condensation into this single, comprehensive, inexpensive volume of all the salient facts of the larger work.
It is generally believed that the best place in the nursing curriculum for the History of Nursing is in the early part of the first year, when the student is just beginning to form her conception of nursing, and is being initiated into its traditions.
The Many Excellent Features of this Short History of Nursing
will inevitably bring it into use in a very great number of Hospital Training Schools; it should, of course, be in the library of every Hospital which does not maintain a Training School. It is believed that it will be found to be
The Best Volume on This Important Subject
(Over)
Some of the
Putnam Nursing Books
- Maxwell and Pope’s Practical Nursing
Price $2.50.
- Cadmus’ Manual of Obstetrical Nursing
Approximate price $1.50.
- Dock’s Materia Medica for Nurses
Price $2.25.
- Higgins’ Psychology of Nursing
Price $2.50.
- Pope’s Manual of Nursing Procedure
Price $2.40.
- Pope’s Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses
600 pages. Price $2.90.
- Pope’s Quiz Book for Nurses
485 pages. Price $2.50.
- Dock and Nutting’s History of Nursing
In four volumes. Illustrated volumes 1 and 2, price $7.50. Volumes 3 and 4, price $7.50.
- Dock and Stewart’s Short History of Nursing
One volume, 400 pages. Price $3.00.
- Pope’s Physics and Chemistry for Nurses
450 pages. Price $2.50.
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Medical and Nurse Books
Besse Building
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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| 52 | i e. | " | i. e. |
| 68 | or | " | of |
| 72 | pasttime | " | pastime |
| 76 | strees | " | stress |
| 76 | council | " | counsel |
| 81 | , | " | . |
| 95 | em-dash | " | hyphen |
| 103 | hypochondrasis | " | hypochondriasis |
| 110 | successfuly | " | successfully |
| 132 | stubborness | " | stubbornness |
| 164 | in | " | is |
| 167 | weakenss | " | weakness |
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