Hardbound green fabric covered nursing textbook describing inorganic and organic materia medica as well as therapeutics, drug preparations, administrations, and other topics; plain front cover, gold text on spine; signed by previous owner; 356 pages.
Hardbound green fabric covered nursing textbook describing inorganic and organic materia medica as well as therapeutics, drug preparations, administrations, and other topics; plain front cover, gold text on spine; signed by previous owner; 356 pages.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Owned by Gladys (Millar) Rockel, donated by her son Stephen Rockel
Front page: "A TEXT-BOOK // OF // MATERIA MEDICA // FOR NURSES // INCLUDING THERAPEUTICS AND TOXICOLOGY // BY // GEORGE P. PAUL, M.D., C. P. H. (Harvard) // SIXTH EDITION, THOROUGHLY REVISED // W. B. SANDERS COMPANY // 1930"; handwritten on inside cover: "FEBRUARY // 5 // 1935 // GLADYS MILLAR"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-3
Length
20.0 cm
Width
13.6 cm
Depth
2.6 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 20.0 cm x Width 13.6 cm x Depth 2.6 cm
Condition Remarks
Shows minor wear along edges; pages faded; inside page is heavily faded from folded newspapaper stored there
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Website
Reference Comments
Donor’s remarks
The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, "Medical Publishing," By Richard H. Lampert. https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/medical-publishing/
Research Facts
Gladys (Millar) Rockel graduated from Kitchener Waterloo Nursing College Class of 1939; nursing positions in Pontiac, Michigan (1940), Grand Rapids, Michigan (1941), Toronto, Ontario (1942) and worked in private practise with husband Dr Rockel.
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.