Literary work - Poem, Travis-Weston, "The Nurses If", [ca. 1930's]
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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 illustration of a woman wearing a nurse's 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 piece of wood, and fixed to brown carboard with stand
![''The Nurses If", unknown, [ca.1930]](/media/collectors/50187a8f023fd7201471f198/items/6a4c687a182c0f52f809c367/item-media/6a4f3bfdea2522adccc5cb96/VictorianCollections-large.jpg?cb=6)
