Nursing: Its Principles and Practice For Hospital and Private Use
by Robb, Isabel Hampton
- Used
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland: E. C. Koeckert, 1909. Third Edition. Cloth. Good +. 8vo. 565 pp. Blue cloth w/ gilt titling. Well-loved copy. Shaken w/ fraying and discoloration to cloth heaviest at spine ends and edges of boards. Booksellers label to fpd "P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Medical Booksellers, No. 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia". Illustrated throughout with twelve black and white plates and 3 fold-out charts. Early edition of one of the first texts to be written on nursing in America. It was critical in recognizing nursing as a respected and necessary profession in medicine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- small volume (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 450
- Title
- Nursing: Its Principles and Practice For Hospital and Private Use
- Author
- Robb, Isabel Hampton
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- E. C. Koeckert
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- Nursing, Women's Health, Florence Nightingale, Medicine
Terms of Sale
small volume
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Providence, Rhode Island
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- Gilt
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.