Volume 1

Notes on nursing : what it is, and what it is not / By Florence Nightingale.

  • Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Date:
[1859?]
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Credit: Notes on nursing : what it is, and what it is not / By Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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