Hard covered brown textbook for educating nurses on various medical diseases; gold text on the spine; attached on the inside cream paper has printed note from the Publisher's Canadian Agents; 503 pages including index.
Hard covered brown textbook for educating nurses on various medical diseases; gold text on the spine; attached on the inside cream paper has printed note from the Publisher's Canadian Agents; 503 pages including index.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Owned by Gladys (Millar) Rockel, donated by her son Stephen Rockel.
On the spine: "MEDICAL // DISEASES // FOR // NURSES // STEVENS // AMBLER // SAUNDERS"; hand written on the inside cover: "Reference Library // K. W Hospital"; attached card: "With the // Compliments of // the Publisher's // Canadian Agents // MCAINSH & CO. LIMITED // 60 FRONT STREET WEST // TORONTO"; on frontispiece: "A TEXT-BOOK // of // MEDICAL DISEASES // FOR NURSES // INCLUDING NURSING CARE // By // ARTHUR A. STEVENS, A.M., M.D. // and // FLORENCE ANNA AMBLER, B.S., R.N. // PHILADELPHIA AND LOPNDON // W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY // 1931"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-3
Length
20.0 cm
Width
14.0 cm
Depth
3.1 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 20.0 cm X Width 14.0 cm X Depth 3.1 cm
Condition Remarks
The colour of the covers are slightly faded; the edges of the textbook are moderately worn; the spine of the cover is also beginning to loosen from the pages; and there is a stain at the bottom of the textbook on the bottom end of the pages
Copy Type
original
Reference Types
Website
Reference Comments
The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, "Medical Publishing," By Richard H. Lampert. https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/medical-publishing/
Research Facts
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.