Facets

1555 –1556

#9773

Le benefice commun de tout le monde, ou commodité de vie d’vn chascun, pour la conseruation de santé: Remedes segretz tirées des plantes contre toutes maladies. 3 vols.

A vernacular guide for living a healthy life compiled from the writings of Fuchs. Includes herbal and dietary remedies, recipes for oils, pills and other preparations to treat maladies such as fever, plague and wounds.

1748

#6322

An essay upon nursing, and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age.

Cadogan’s famous essay laid down rules on the nursing, feeding, and clothing of infants, and filled a great need at a time when infant welfare was much neglected through the ignorance of those concerned. As a result o…

1778 –1793

#8222

Geographische Geschichte des Menschen und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüßigen Thiere: nebst einer hieher gehörigen Zoologischen Weltcharte. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

1782

#14120

Unterricht für Krankenwärter zum Gebrauch öffentlicher Vorlesungen.

The first German book on nursing--a manual of instructions for male nurses. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. (Thanks for Webb Dordick for this reference.)

1786

#14119

Manuel pour le service des malades, ou précis des connoissances nécessaires aux personnes chargées du soin des malades, femmes en couche, enfans nouveaux-nés, &c.

The first French book on nursing. Digital facsimile of the 1787 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. (Thanks to Webb Dordick for this reference.)

1837

#10411

The family nurse; or companion of the frugal housewife. Revised by a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Child was was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audie…

1843

#7696

Six ethnographic maps illustrative of "The natural history of man".

An atlas of six large hand-colored folding maps originally issued to accompany Prichard's popular work, The natural history of man, first issued in 1843. The maps were revised and re-issued in 1851 and 1861.

1849

#12893

A dictionary of dental science, biography, bibliography, and medical terminology.

An encyclopedia in dictionary form, combining all the elements described in the title in one alphabetical sequence. This work underwent numerous later editions. Digital facsimile of the 1849 edition from Google Books …

1851 –1854

#5601

Klinische Chirurgie. 3 pts.

Pirogov is considered the greatest Russian surgeon and one of the greatest military surgeons of all time. He was among the first in Europe to employ ether anesthesia. He served in the Crimean campaign and was responsi…

1856

#7809

Eastern hospitals and English nurses; the narrative of twelve months' experience in the hospitals of Koulali and Scutari by a lady volunteer. 2 vols.

Taylor accompanied Florence Nightingale to Scutari, and worked as nurse in the military hospitals. She provided one of the first eye-witness acounts of military hospitals at Scutari and Koulali, and wrote about the ma…

1857

#6634

Geschichte christlicher Krankenpflege und Pflegerschaften.

Reprinted, Bad Reichenhall, Kleinert, 1966.

1860

#1612

Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not.

After receiving training in Germany and France, Florence Nightingale had some nursing experience in England. The Crimean war gave her an opportunity to demonstrate the value of trained nurses. Within a few months of h…

1864

#8994

The female spy of the union army. The thrilling adventures, experiences, and escapes of a woman nurse, spy, and scout, in hospitals, camps and battlefields.

Digital facsimile of a reprint of the 1864 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Reissued in 1865 as Nurse and spy in the Union Army: Containing the adventures and experience of a woman in hospitals, camps, …

1865

#11562

Organization of nursing: An account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing by a member of the Committee of the Home & Training School. With an introduction, and notes, by Florence Nightingale.

The Liverpool Training School and Home for Nurses was established in 1865, from which a district nursing system was implemented in Liverpool through the 1860s. This system eventually spread throughout England. Digital…

1866

#13706

A journal of hospital life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the end of the war: With sketches of life and character, and brief notices of current events during that period.

"[B]y far the fullest and most informative of narratives of the Confederate women who served as nurses" (In Tall Cotton). Cumming responded to calls for volunteers and worked as a field nurse from 1862 through the end…

1867

#13345

Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1870

#13032

The boys in white: The experience of a hospital agent in and around Washington.

An account of the author's experiences as a nurse working in Washington, D.C. hospitals during the U.S. Civil War. Wheelock became known as the "Florence Nightingale of Michigan." Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trus…

1878

#11536

A manual of nursing prepared for the Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital. [Compiled and edited by Dr. Victoria White.]

The Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital opened in 1873, the first school in United States run according to Florence Nightingale's nursing principles. Among other things, these principles called fo…

1878

#11538

A hand-book of nursing for family and general use. Published under the direction of the Connecticut Training-School for Nurses, State Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.

The Connecticut Training-School for Nurses opened in 1873, and the first edition of this manual was copyright 1878, the same year as the Bellevue manual. However, it is believed that the first copies of this work were…

1885

#11537

A text-book of nursing for the use of training schools, families, and private students. Compiled by Clara S. Weeks-Shaw.

This was the first textbook on nursing formally written by a nurse credited on the title page. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1899) from Google Books at this link.

1888

#8996

My story of the war: The Civil War memories of the famous nurse, relief organizer and suffragette.

1890

#11561

Sketch of the history & progress of district nursing, from its commencement in the year 1859 to the present date, including the foundation by the "Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute" for nursing the poor in their own home

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1893

#14364

Nursing: Its principles and practice for hospital and private use.

Isabel Hampton Robb was the first Superintendent of Nurses at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her textbook standardized the education of nursing in the U.S. and abroad. It included an outline for a 3-year long nu…

1894

#11267

Hospitals dispensaries and nursing. Papers and discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893. Edited by John S. Billings and Henry M. Hurd.

Includes almost 90 articles on all aspects of hospitals and nursing, by luminaries such Henry Burdett, Lavinia Dock, Cardinal Gibbons, Isabel Hampton, Henry Lyman, and Lewis Pilcher, among dozens of others. Florence N…

1895

#9001

Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898

#7058

The Red Cross in peace and war.

Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…

1902

#13220

A nurse's guide for the operating room. Published under the direction of the Sisters of Charity, St. Joseph's Hospital.

Distinctively, Senn devoted his first chapter to the "Preparation of Operating Room in a Private House," suggesting that surgeons may have been frequently called upon to perform operations in homes when the book was p…

1904

#9530

Obstetrics for nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1907 –1912

#6635

A history of nursing. The evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses [and] From the earliest times to the present day with special reference to the work of the past thirty years. 4 vols.

Vols. 3-4 by L.L Dock only.

1910

#13217

Hygiene and morality: A manual for nurses and others, giving an outline of the medical, social, and legal aspects of the venereal diseases.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1912

#10413

Modern methods in nursing.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1916

#8599

Studies in ethics for nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1919

#8600

Training school methods for institutional nurses.

Digital facsimiles from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1922

#9933

History of American Red Cross nursing.

By six authors. Also authored by Sarah Elizabeth Pickett, and Anna R. van Meter. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1926

#14363

A sound economic basis for schools of nursing and other addresses.

Nutting was a member of the first graduating class of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1891, and by 1894 its superintendent of nurses and principal. She left Hopkins in 1907 for Teachers College at Columbia Univ…

1927

#7842

Certain samaritans.

A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…

1929

#13079

Pathfinders: A history of the progress of colored graduate nurses. With biographies of many prominent nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1930

#12830

The moving boundary method of studying the electrophoresis of proteins. (Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Scient. Upsaliensis, IV, 7, No. 4.)

Tilesius's doctoral dissertation introduced the laboratory technique of moving-boundary electrophoresis, a technique for separation of chemical compounds by electrophoresis in free solution. For this work, and the wor…

1935

#269.5

Das Phasenkontrastverfahren b.d. mikroskopischen Beobachtung.

Zernicke invented phase contrast microscopy. In 1953 Zernike was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope."

1940

#13073

Psychiatric nursing technic.

1943

#6636

History of nursing.

Second edition, History and trends of professional nursing, 1950.

1946

#8899

White caps: The story of nursing.

1951

#14367

Rehabilitation nursing. Foreward by Howard A. Rusk.

The first book on rehabilitation nursing, including a historical survey of rehabilitation and a study of the incidence of disability in the U.S. Morrissey conducted her research in association with the Institute of Ph…

1953

#14369

Nursing team organization and functioning.

Lambertsen developed "team nursing," a system of integrated care distributing the care of a patient among a team working together. In team nursing the registered nurse (RN) functions as a team leader, and coordinates …

1954

#11268

The Johns Hopkins Hospital school of nursing, 1889-1949.

1959

#6637

The story of the growth of nursing as an art, a vocation, and a profession. Fifth edition.

1959

#6638

The history of nursing: An interpretation of the social and medical factors involved.

1960

#6639

A history of the nursing profession.

Covers England and Wales only.

1961

#12015

No time for prejudice: A story of the integration of negroes in nursing in the United States.

Primarily a history of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses [NACGN], which existed for the express purpose of "promoting unity within the nursing profession and furthering the cause of democracy." Integ…

1962

#13164

A bio-bibliography of Florence Nightingale.

Completed and edited for publication by Sue M. Goldie after the death of William J. Bishop.