Hardbound fabric covered nursing textbook describing inorganic and organic materia medica as well as new drugs; title stamped onto front cover in blue ink; signed by previous owner and stamped with school's library stamp on inside cover; 240 pages.
Hardbound fabric covered nursing textbook describing inorganic and organic materia medica as well as new drugs; title stamped onto front cover in blue ink; signed by previous owner and stamped with school's library stamp on inside cover; 240 pages.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Owned by Donna Hitchcock; donated via her neighbour Pearl Clark.
Stamped on front cover: "MATERIA MEDICA // FOR NURSES"; hand-written inside front cover: "Emma Hawley // Cleveland. Ohio. // Sept. 1904"; stamped inside front cover: THE // LAKESIDE HOSPITAL // TRAINING SCHOOL, // FOR NURSES."; printed on first page: "TEXT-BOOK // OF // MATERIA MEDICA // COMPILED BY // LAVINIA L. DOCK // GRADUATE OF SELECTIVE TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR NURSES // THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED // G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS // NEW YORK // 27 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET // LONDON // 24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND // The Knickerbocker Press // 1904"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-3
Length
19.6 cm
Width
12.8 cm
Depth
2.4 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 19.6 cm x Width 12.8 cm x Depth 2.4 cm
Condition Remarks
Pages faded; spine loose from pages; fabric on bottom of spine pulled back
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Article
Reference Comments
Mary E. Garofalo, RN and Elizabeth Fee, PhD, "Lavinia Dock (1858–1956): Picketing, Parading, and Protesting," Am J Public Health. 2015 February; 105(2): 276–277. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302021
Research Facts
Lavinia Dock was a nurse, writer, suffragist, and activist. She was assistant superintendent of nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1896, she joined her friend Lillian Wald as a visiting nurse at the Henry Street Settlement. She worked there for twenty years. She identified as socialist politically, after working with poor immigrant populations at the Henry Street Settlement. She met other socialists and anarchists, including Emma Goldman. She was a member of the Women’s Trade Union League, participated in strikes, and spoke in favour of women's rights to birth control. She was arrested many times for trying to vote, and spent time in the Occoquan workhouse in Virginia. She considered herself a friend of the Russian Revolution and was a member of the American Council for Friendship with Russia. She also worked on the book " A History of Nursing," believing that nursing would not be accepted as a profession until its history was documented.