This book, written by a surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital and a matron of St Guy's Hospital, was intended to be used as a pocket book by the civil nursing reserve, nursing auxiliaries and trained nurses. These books even taught the nurse the duty she owed to herself, as 'if she thinks, reads, and talks about nothing but nursing, she contracts her outlook on life, lessens her intelligence, and becomes somewhat of a nuisance to her friends'. They aimed to provide the nurse with the skills and knowledge she needed for patient care, to inform them of the various characteristics, attributes and morals they should have, and how they should interact with colleagues. The Whipple Library holds a number of nursing textbooks dating from the early 1900s to the 1940s.
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