Book with dustjacket. Book has a dark blue cover, with abbreviated title, author's and publisher's names embossed in gilt on the spine. Dustjacket has a yellow background, the front of which has a decorative brown border within which abbreviated title, author's and publisher's name printed in black along with an illustration of two hands bandaging a third hand/arm (brown ink). Abbreviated title author's and publisher's names are also printed in black ink on spine. Back cover has illustrations of vintage medical related advertisements. non-fictionThis book was intended "to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others...Knowledge which everyone ought to have-distinct from medical knowledge, which only a professional can have".florenve nightingale, nursing