Historical information
It is a medical parody of Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem "If—", rewritten to highlight the patience and resilience required in the nursing profession
Significance
An example of nursing humour
Physical description
Printed card, off-white background. Underneath a black and white illustraion of a woman wearing a nurses veil, title in red ink, main body of poem in black ink with two red 'Ifs'. and a statement in red at the base. Card has been mounted on a thin piece of wood, covered in plastic film and fixed to brown carboard
Inscriptions & markings
On the cardboard ' Dear Johnny/With Best Wishes/From/Pat [black ink] 1943 [pencil] Previous cataloge number [black ink}
