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ix, 1 leaf [List of plans], 187 pp; 34 text figs.; 11 folding numbered plans of hospitals, 2 unnumbered folding plans of hospitals at back; folding statistical form; 2 folding tables pertaining to surgical operations. Original cloth, recently rebacked with original spine preserved. Corners of covers worn. Title page foxed. Two vertical creases in front flyleaf. Very Good. Third, and Final, Edition. SIGNED BY FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE TO ALBERT JENKINS HUMBERT: "Mr. Humbert/ Offered by/ Florence Nightingale/ Dec 16/63." Bishop & Goldie, A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale no. 101. In the Preface to this much enlarged and mostly rewritten third, and final, edition, Nightingale writes: "Since the publication of the first edition of that paper [1858], great advances have been made in the adoption of sound principles of hospital construction; and there are already a number of examples of new hospitals realizing all, or nearly all, the conditions required for the successful treatment of the sick and maimed poor. Besides this, much additional experience has been obtained in many important points, especially in the details of hospital buildings and fittings. In order to spread a knowledge of the progress already made, as well as of those principles which may now be considered as established, I have been asked to prepare the present edition. In doing this, it has been necessary to rewrite nearly the whole of it, and to make so many additions to the matter that it is in reality a new book. F. N." In 1859-60 Nightingale worked on the plans of the Lisbon Children's Hospital, for which Albert Jenkins Humbert was the architect and to whom. Florence Nightingale inscribed this copy. In this third edition of her Notes on Hospitals, she writes about the Lisbon Hospital: "The only plan of a children's hospital which realizes all the various conditions laid down is that to be erected at Lisbon, of which here is a sketch (No. 11). This plan possesses peculiar interest in account of its embodiment of a desire if the late king of Portugal [Pedro V], to commemorate his lost queen (Queen Estefania]. Our own beloved Albert . . . had every stage of the plan brought to him, and made constant suggestions--it being his anxious wish to introduce into Portugal in a model building all the recent improvements in hospital construction made in this country. The architect was Mr. Humbert, to whom the design was entrusted by the prince consort" (pp. 129-30). "While the full correspondence between [Humbert] and Nightingale is not available, her advice to him is . . ." (McDonald (ed.), Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform, p. 524; Nightingale's advice to Humbert is on pp. 526-31). Writing in 1879, Nightingale considered Humbert's Lisbon Hospital and the Pendlebury Hospital near Manchester to be the "only very good ones" for children (McDonald, ibid., p. 858). For Albert Jenkins Humbert in McDonald, ibid., see pp. 34, 175, 524-31, 657-58, 858, 951. Plan no. 11 is Children s Hospital, Lisbon. Seller Inventory # 16129
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Title: Notes on Hospitals. Third Edition, Enlarged ...
Publisher: London: Longmans, etc., 1863.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
