Physical description

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

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

On front end page there is a printed black and white bookplate "from the library of Kate Cross". The previous catalogue number is also written on this bookplate. At the top of page 3 is a handwritten dedication "To dear Kate, with love Auntie Ruth 1980"

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"