[Nursing Artifact]

RED CROSS NURSE'S CAP, Circa World War I.

: . Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Blue cotton cap, with white linen band at front, with sewn Red Cross patch to front. 12-3/4" in length; 5" in height. Modest wear. Hint of ag-toning to the while linen portion. Crease to one side of linen band. Overall, Very Good.

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Book number: 49861

Catalogue: Nursing

National First Aid Association of America. Barton, Clara, Roscoe G. Wells, Mrs. J. Sewall Reed, Mary I. Kensel & H. H. Hartung - Contributors

REPORT Of The FIRST ANNUAL MEETING Of The NATIONAL FIRST AID ASSOCIATION Of AMERICA HELD At The NEW CENTURY BUILDING, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Boston: The National First Aid Association of America, 1906. 1st edition. Grey printed paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 50 pp. Frontis + many b/w photographic images throughout. 8-1/8" x 6". Modest wear to wrappers (light sunning to edges, faint creasing). Last leaf excised (no apparent loss to text). Overall a VG example. A record found on OCLC, but no institutional holdings listed. Rare in the trade.

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Book number: 40005

Catalogue: Nursing

National First Aid Association of America. Barton, Clara, Roscoe G. Wells, Mrs. J. Sewall Reed, Mary I. Kensel & H. H. Hartung - Contributors

REPORT Of The SECOND ANNUAL MEETING Of The NATIONAL FIRST AID ASSOCIATION Of AMERICA HELD At The PARKER HOUSE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. Friday, June 7th 1907

Boston: The National First Aid Association of America, 1907. 1st edition. Red printed paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 66 pp. B/w photographic images throughout. 8-3/8" x 6". Modest wear to wrappers (light rubbing and faint creasing). A VG example. Not located on OCLC. Rare in the trade.

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Book number: 40007

Catalogue: Nursing

Barton, Clara [1821 - 1912] - Inscriber. Gardner, Joseph [1833 - 1918] - Inscribed to

TROISIEME CONFERENCE INTERNATIONALE Des SOCIETES De LA CROIX-ROUGE Tenue a Geneve du 1er Au 6 Septembre 1884. Compte Rendu

Genève: Au Siège Comité International de la Croix-Rouge, 1885. 1st edition. PRESENTATION copy, INSCRIBED from Barton, "To my friend, / Dr. Joseph Gardner / with sentiments of esteem and cordial regard. / Which words cannot express. / Clara Barton. / Washington D. C, March 15, 1889." Further, a 2 line quote by Barton underneath, "As the best of all fortune has come [squiggly underline] in the past / My heart only prays that the present may last." concluded with her "C. B.". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with silver stamped lettering to spine & front board, accompanied by an impressed silver & red Red Cross logo. Housed in a custom chemise & 1/4 leather slipcase with marbled paper boards. xix, [1 (blank)], 444 pp. Text in French. 4to. Volume shows wear & evidence of dampstaining. Rear hinge paper starting at bottom. An About VG copy. Chemise & slipcase - Fine. Scarce Red-Cross volume, of which, at the time of cataloguing, OCLC recorded 5 institutional holdings [none in the US], inscribed to Dr Joseph Gardner, a prominent Indiana citizen and early friend/benefactor of Clara Barton, as well as patron of the recently-formed American Red Cross [founded in 1881, and of which Barton was president when this volume was inscribed]. Barton had a long-standing friendship with the Gardners, with her one-time sectetary Enola Lee, becoming the 3rd Mrs. Joseph Gardner. In 1893, Dr. Gardner donated a large plot of his land in Indiana to the American Red Cross, which Barton envisioned becoming a central-states headquarters/warehouse for the organization. All was to come to naught however, as the plot was never developed & ulitmately sold to settle back taxes, et al. Such was to later cause Barton problems, however, as she was accused of financial malfeasance, which ultimately contributed to her 1904 retirement from the Red Cross. Cf. Cavinder, MORE AMAZING TALES OF INDIANA, pp. 79 - 80. Early inscribed Barton material is somewhat uncommon in the trade. We are pleased to be able to offer this volume, documenting the friendship between these two civic-oriented individuals.

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Book number: 41347

Catalogue: Nursing

Boland, Mary A.

A HANDBOOK Of INVALID COOKING. For the Use of Nurses in Traning-Schools, Nurses in Private Practice and Others Who Care for the Sick. Containing Explanatory Lessons on the Properties and Value of Different Kinds of Food, and Recipes for the Making of Various Dishes

New York: The Century Co, 1898. A later printing of a work first 1st published in 1893. Cf. Bitting, p. 47 [with the 1906 edition]; Wheaton & Kelly 707. Not in Cagle. Original publisher's gunmetal-grey cloth binding with gilt-stamped maroon leather title label to spine & title stamped in blind to front board. Orange edgestain. vii, [1 (blank)], 323, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Slight lean. Modest wear & soiling to binding, with small abrasion at base of front board. Withal, a VG copy. This a popular cookery book from this author, who was an instructor in cooking at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training-School for Nurses, with at least 6 printings through 1906.

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Book number: 43525

Catalogue: Nursing

Cambridge School of Nursing. Charles W[illiam]. Eliot - Contributor

The CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL Of NURSING. Circular and Address

Cambridge, MA: Cambridge School of Nursing, 1907. 1st printings (presumed). White printed paper. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 2 items, one a single sheet folded once, and the other a booklet of 8 unpaginated pages. Circular: 10-1/2" x 8". Address: 7-5/8" x 4-1/2". Wear to paper (creasing, light soiling and rubbing). Staples to booklet rusted, some evidence of biopredation to edges. A Good+ pair of items. Includes: The Cambridge School of Nursing Circular of Information from April 1905 (published before the school's classes even opened) and an Address Delivered at the Cambridge School of Nursing on June 6th, 1907 by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot (delivered just 4 short months before the decision to close the school was made by the trustees). Charles W. Eliot was Harvard's 21st president, and throughout his reign at the school (the longest term as president in the University's history) turned Harvard into the international, worldwide university that it is today. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university.

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Book number: 40886

Catalogue: Nursing

National First Aid Association of America. "Tom" - Contributor

MODERN SAMARITANS. Price Fifteen Cents, Postpaid

Boston: The National First Aid Association of America, Beacon Street, 1909. 1st edition (presumed). Brown printed paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Unpaginated, but 12 pp. 6 brown & white reproduced photographic images throughout. 7" x 5-1/2". Light wear to wrappers. Otherwise, a clean VG+ example. Booklet is in letter format, to "My dear William.. July 1909" from a "Tom." Tom describes witnessing First Aid in action, commenting on its usefulness and quick reactions. His praise of the First Aid Association is so profuse (in a fictional manner), that one can easily see how this publication would have been used in a promotional manner. Not found on OCLC. Rare in the trade.

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Book number: 40006

Catalogue: Nursing

U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, U.S. Public Health Service / Federal Security Agency - Contributors. Edmundson, Carolyn Moorhead [1906 - 1992] - Illustrator

ENLIST In A PROUD PROFESSION! Join the U.S. CADET NURSE CORPS. A Lifetime Education - Free! If You Can Qualify

New York, NY: U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, (n. d.). Buff paper, printed in color. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Single poster, printed recto only. Large color half-tone illustration by Edmundson of a hopeful and beautiful Cadet Nurse, looking off into the distance in uniform. 20" x 14-1/8". Light age-toning. Horizontal & vertical fold lines. A VG+ copy. The Cadet Nurse Corps program was passed by Congress unanimously and became effective in July of 1943. The Corps was supervised by the United States Public Health Service to train (hopefully) 124,000 young women as nurses during World War II. The plan was to subsidize over 1000 nursing schools for a three-year training program after which they graduates could, if they so desired, become commissioned officers in the Army or Navy nurse corps. The war ended before the first Cadets graduated and only a few entered the military. In its lifetime (1943-48), it was the largest training program in the history of nursing in the United States.

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Book number: 45877

Catalogue: Nursing

Cosgrave, E. MacDowel. Collie, R. J. - Contributor

HINTS And HELPS For HOME NURSING And HYGIENE. A Handbook for All Who Have to Do with Sickness; Arranged According to the Syllabus of the Second (or Nursing) Course of Lectures. With the Addition of a Chapter on the Application of the Roller Bandage, By R. J. Collie. St. John Ambulance Association

London: , (n. d). 120th Thousand. Brown cloth binding with silver stamping to front board. v, [6] - 190, [2] pp. Price list p. [191]. Illustrated with cuts. 5-1/4" x 4-1/8". Spine a bit darkened, light binding wear. Hinges professionally restored. A VG - VG+ copy.

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Book number: 33441

Catalogue: Nursing

Cowles, Edward

NURSING - REFORM For The INSANE. [drop title]

[Washington, D.C.?]: , 1887. 1st separate printing. Self-wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. [2], 16 pp. Frontispiece, captioned with "Fifteen Nurses. Class of 1886. McLean Asylum Training - School. Composite Made by Notman. From The Century Magazine for November, 1887." 8vo. Only light wear, VG+. Apparently an offprint, which notes the piece was "Read before the Psychological Section of the International Medical Congress, Washington, D.C. September 8, 1887.".

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Book number: 45143

Catalogue: Nursing

Dickie, Helen M. McInroy, I. G. - Contributor

POCKET BOOK On TRAY And TROLLEY SETTING.; Foreword by McInroy, I. G.

Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd, 1959. 1st Edition. Original publisher's maroon faux leather flexible covers with gilt stamped lettering. viii, 167, [1] pp (including Index). Extensively illustrated with 94 drawings detailing the many divers tray / trolley layout configurations. 12mo. 5-1/2" x 4-3/8". Only very light wear. Bookstore stamp to front paste-down. A pleasing VG+ copy. A popular, oft published text, and hence easily found in later editions, the first, however, is decidedly uncommon.

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Book number: 46157

Catalogue: Nursing

Doty, Alvah H[unt. b. 1854]., M. D.

A MANUAL Of INSTRUCTION In The PRINCIPLES Of PROMPT AID To The INJURED. Designed for Military and Civil Use

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. 1st edition (Cordasco 801658). Original blue cloth binding with white red cross adhering cloth belly band. xiii, [1 (blank)], 224 pp (including Index). Color frontis, "General Plan of the Circulation". 96 intratextual figures (No. 73 folding). 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". General wear & soiling. Overall, VG. "The object of this Manual is to instruct those who are desirous of knowing what course to pursue in emergencies, in order that sick or injured may be temporarily relieved.. In order that the subject may be well understood, it is essential to know something of the construction of the human body and the funtions of the different organs; for this reason, considerable space has been devoted to anatomy and physiology. The author has endeavored to explain each topic in a plain and simple manner .." [Preface].

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Book number: 41896.1

Catalogue: Nursing

Drinkwater, H.

SICK NURSING

London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1907. 1st printing. Maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Pale yellow eps. viii, [1 (blank)], 138 pp (including Index). Illustrated with drawings. 12mo. 6" x 3-7/8". Minor binding wear. A VG+ copy. From the preface, "This book designed as a manual for the use of Students attending lectures in connection with the St John Ambulance Association and the Evening Continuation Classes." A title from the publisher's 'Temple Primers' series.

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Book number: 32164.1

Catalogue: Nursing

Thompson, Alice M. C. - Editor and Compiler

A BIBLIOGRAPHY Of NURSING LITERATURE, 1961 - 1970

London: The Library Association for The Royal College of Nursing, 1974. Blue cloth stamped in gilt with blue box. Pink dj printed in black. xiii, [1], 223, [1] pp. 12" x 8". Ex-library with usual markings, text clean; stiff mylar cover affixed to dj. VG- / VG-.

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Book number: 43338

Catalogue: Nursing

[Nursing Ephemera]

INFORMATION For RESIDENTS ELYRIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Of ELYRIA, OHIO. School of Nursing

Elyria (?): , (n. d.). Ca 1919. Printed wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 8 pp. 5-3/4" x 3-13/16". Bit of age-toning, po signature at top of front cover. A VG+ copy. A 'rules & regs' booklet for those who stay at the "Nurses' Residence", e.g. "Nurses will not be permitted to leave the Hospital grounds in uniforms." and "Pupils must not make social engagements nor accept invitations that will interfere with class work or performance of duty." It is further remarked that "Electric lights are expensive and care should be exercised in the use of them.", as well as "The hour for rising is 6 A. M." A useful record that documents school dorm requirements of aspiring nursing students.

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Book number: 50746

Catalogue: Nursing