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

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Transcriber's List of Errors

32ecstacychanged to ecstasy
52i e."i. e.
68or"of
72pasttime"pastime
76strees"stress
76council"counsel
81,".
95em-dash"hyphen
103hypochondrasis"hypochondriasis
110successfuly"successfully
132stubborness"stubbornness
164in"is
167weakenss"weakness

The inconsistent hyphenation of hypo-mania is as in the original.