1913 · [New York, New York]
[New York, New York], 1913. Very good. 10 1/8" x 7¾". Commercial composition book with 177 handwritten pages, approximately 30,000 words + 4¼" x 7" Nurse's Record laid in. Very good: front board loose from textblock and reinforced with tape which is worn at tips; first leaf a bit creased and chipped; some light scattered spotting.
This is a handwritten medical manual created by a nurse at Sloane Maternity Hospital in New York City. It is brimming with tidy, meticulous instructions and information on women's health and medical needs.
Sloane was founded in 1886 as a maternity hospital and obstetrics training center for nurses with a donation from William D. Sloane and his wife Emily Thorn Vanderbilt to the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. It is now part of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the Sloane name is still used today.
While the book's cover and laid-in Nurse's Record give only our author's last name, the laid-in Record shows that Miss De Turbeville was a top-notch nurse, earning a 10 of 10 rating in six of seven categories including "Efficiency in Work," "Interest in Work," "Neatness" and "General Conduct," with a 9 for "Class Work." Inside the rear cover were written "Marks of probationers, May 1st, 1913" with a list of women's names and their percentage scores on nursing exams.
The book has page after page of neatly penned notes and directions running the gamut of maternity and general medical care, from "Operating Room Technique," including the sterilization of dressings and instruments, to "Fowler's Position for the Bed" and "Methods of restraining patients." There were "Rules for making Solutions," suggested temperatures for "Babies' baths," information on quarantine, chemical disinfectants, bacteriology and bandaging. Sections went over "Tests for diagnosis," assorted vaccines and drug classifications, examination questions and "avenues of infection." About 16 recipes covered a "special diet" that might be "ordered by a physician," including toasts, milks, "Albumen Water" and a "Frothy Egg-nogg," and there were directives for castor oil as a "purgative" and whiskey or brandy as stimulants. Our nurse noted that feeding was "of the greatest importance" in tending to the sick, and there were "important things to consider" such as "digestibility" and an "appeal to [the patient's] senses" but that one should always "follow the doctor's orders directly."
A thorough women's health manuscript. (Inventory #: 8354)
This is a handwritten medical manual created by a nurse at Sloane Maternity Hospital in New York City. It is brimming with tidy, meticulous instructions and information on women's health and medical needs.
Sloane was founded in 1886 as a maternity hospital and obstetrics training center for nurses with a donation from William D. Sloane and his wife Emily Thorn Vanderbilt to the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. It is now part of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the Sloane name is still used today.
While the book's cover and laid-in Nurse's Record give only our author's last name, the laid-in Record shows that Miss De Turbeville was a top-notch nurse, earning a 10 of 10 rating in six of seven categories including "Efficiency in Work," "Interest in Work," "Neatness" and "General Conduct," with a 9 for "Class Work." Inside the rear cover were written "Marks of probationers, May 1st, 1913" with a list of women's names and their percentage scores on nursing exams.
The book has page after page of neatly penned notes and directions running the gamut of maternity and general medical care, from "Operating Room Technique," including the sterilization of dressings and instruments, to "Fowler's Position for the Bed" and "Methods of restraining patients." There were "Rules for making Solutions," suggested temperatures for "Babies' baths," information on quarantine, chemical disinfectants, bacteriology and bandaging. Sections went over "Tests for diagnosis," assorted vaccines and drug classifications, examination questions and "avenues of infection." About 16 recipes covered a "special diet" that might be "ordered by a physician," including toasts, milks, "Albumen Water" and a "Frothy Egg-nogg," and there were directives for castor oil as a "purgative" and whiskey or brandy as stimulants. Our nurse noted that feeding was "of the greatest importance" in tending to the sick, and there were "important things to consider" such as "digestibility" and an "appeal to [the patient's] senses" but that one should always "follow the doctor's orders directly."
A thorough women's health manuscript. (Inventory #: 8354)