Physical description

Book with light brown cover, title and author's name embossed in gilt on front

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At bottom of the front end-page is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, "This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by "Marjorie Connor (handwritten in ink) previous catalogue number is also handwritten in ink on this label. Also on this page is a coloured book plate: Royal Victorian College of Nursing - This book was donated to the College by Miss C.E.Dossetor Congress of I.C.N. 1947. At the top of this page Marjorie Conner has written her name in ink. At the bottom of page xii at the end of the forward which she wrote, Virginia M. Dunbar has signed her name along with the date May 27, 1947

Summary

This 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"