Shaw Clara Compiler (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. D. Appleton and Company, New York. 1893. Hardcover. Stated Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged with Illustrations. Small bookseller on the front pastedown- The W.T. Keener Company, Medical Booksellers, Chicago. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good +; bumping and wear through fabric at head, tail, and tips; light toning to pages. No DJ. Burgundy cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Blue endpapers. Frontispiece illustration of body organs. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 391 pp + 6 pp adverts 12mo. When one thinks back to what medical care was like in 1893 this book will give an idea of just how far the medical sciences have progressed in the past 120 years. This book is considered a classic, for its time and to be the foundational nursing guide intended for both professional training and home care. It covers essential nursing principles, including patient care, cleanliness, observation, and teamwork, with practical techniques for bandaging, wound management, and patient comfort, reflecting the standards of its era. A clean presentable copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 391 pages, with frontispiece, folding plate, colour plate, and 6 pages of ads at rear. Second edition, "revised and enlarged with illustrations". Light rubbing only; light toning from newspaper clipping to pages 136, 137. Binding is sound; no inscriptions.