Physical description

Book has an illustration of three people in Victorian dress on the front cover in shades of purpleA woman (Florence Nightingale) is in the foreground, and another woman and a soldier are to her right. Title and authors name are printed over this illustration in white ink. Author's surname, abbreviated title and ISBN are printed in white on a grey background on the spine, The back cover has a summary of the book is printed in black on a cream background within a light brown border

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

On the front end -page is an inscription handwritten in blue ink: Sister B. Satchell, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, 1970. At the bottom of this 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 ". At the top of this page the previous catalogue number has been written in black ink.

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"