Rockwood / Kingston Psychiatric Hospital / Providence Continuing Care Centre Collection
Category
Archival Items
Nursing
Nursing textbook
Classification
Archival, Publications
Nursing
Nursing textbook
Accession Number
004014016
Description
Hardbound paper covered nursing textbook with illustrations describing medical diseases including infectious diseases, disorders of metabolism, food deficiency diseases, diseases of various systems, intoxications and others; signed by original owner on inside front cover, five names are written on …
Hardbound paper covered nursing textbook with illustrations describing medical diseases including infectious diseases, disorders of metabolism, food deficiency diseases, diseases of various systems, intoxications and others; signed by original owner on inside front cover, five names are written on inside back cover; 554 pages.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Owned by Mildred Valiquette; donated to the Kingston Psychiatric Hospital; donated to museum via Connie Cox and Linda Reason.
Printed on first page: "A TEXTBOOK OF // MEDICAL DISEASES // FOR NURSES // INCLUDING NURSING CARE // By // ARTHUR A. STEVENS, A.M., M.D. // and // FLORENCE ANNA AMBLER, B.S., R.N. // THIRD EDITION, REVISED // W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY // 1937"; embossed on first page: "McAinsh & Co., Limited // Toronto"; hand-written on inside front cover: "Mildred Valiquette // O.H.K. 1937-38."; hand-written on inside back cover: "Ruth Kerr // Norma Wells // Thelma Bertrum // Anna Mullin // Mildred Valiquette"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-3
Length
20.0 cm
Width
14.0 cm
Depth
3.3 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 20.0 cm x Width 14.0 cm x Depth 3.3 cm
Condition Remarks
Paper is ripped at bottom of spine; minor wear along edges from use
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
File
Websites
Reference Comments
Remarks in donor file
"Kingston Psychiatric Hospital," Asylum Projects, accessed August 4, 2020. http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Kingston_Psychiatric_Hospital
The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, "Medical Publishing," By Richard H. Lampert. https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/medical-publishing/
Research Facts
In 1859, the Rockwood Asylum opened in Kingston (Portsmouth). The name was later changed to Rockwood Hospital, and then in 1920 to Ontario Hospital - Kingston. Over the course of its earlier years, a gymnasium was added, then libraries, etc. in order to better serve the patients. During and after the Second World War, the hospital was understaffed due to the war, but by 1959, new buildings were added and the original asylum became known as the Penrose building, which housed people with disabilities. In the 1960s, a music department was added, as well as a unit for children and adolescents. In 1965, the name changed again to the Kingston Psychiatric Hospital. In March 2001, the hospital was placed under the authority of the Providence Continuing Care Centre's Governing Board. Its name was changed a final time to Mental Health Services, and the original asylum building, which had been closed since 1997, remains empty as of 2020.
W. B. Saunders Company began in 1888 in Philadelphia, and published "American Textbook of Surgery" in 1892, followed by many other authoritative medical works. One of the most notorious Saunders publishing adventures was the Kinsey Report, comprised of "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male" and "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female." The company was sold to American broadcaster CBS in 1968.