Physical description

Illustrated book with brown cloth binding, Alfred hospital logo embossed in gilt on front cover, title, author's name & publisher's name and mark embossed in gilt on spine

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

On front end page is a bookplate with black print: inside a decorative border are the words ' Alfred Hospital Training School for Nurses then the hospital's logo (lamp on red cross with motto surrounding) Melbourne S.1. Awarded to' Nurse Audrey Krautil 'for' General Proficiency-2nd Year 1st prize 'Date' 14th July 1949
Below this there is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, "This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by " Audrey Doig (Krautil) (handwritten in ink) Previous catalogue number is also handwritten in ink on this label

Summary

collection of biographies of contributors to medicine from ancient times to the 1940's