Hardbound paper covered nursing textbook with illustrations describing nursing of children including topics of growth, development, nutrition, home care, hospital care abnormalities and diseases; signed on inside front cover by original owner; 554 pages.
Hardbound paper covered nursing textbook with illustrations describing nursing of children including topics of growth, development, nutrition, home care, hospital care abnormalities and diseases; signed on inside front cover by original owner; 554 pages.
Printed on first page: "NURSING OF CHILDREN // Fifth Edition, Illustrated // ROBERT A. LYON, M.D. // ELGIE M. WALLINGER, R.N., B.S., M.A. // W. B. Saunders Company // Philadelphia London 1959"; hand-written on inside front cover: "Patricia Fowlie"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-3
Length
20.8 cm
Width
15.2 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 20.8 cm x Width 15.2 cm
Condition Remarks
Like new; minor wear on cover from use
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
File
Website
Reference Comments
Remarks in donor file
The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, "Medical Publishing," By Richard H. Lampert. https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/medical-publishing/
Research Facts
Patti (Fowlie) Clark is a graduate of the Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing, Class of 1964.
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.