The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington.

  • Warrington, Joseph, -1888.
Date:
1839
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Credit: The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    jV PREFAI I' responsible an occupation. It is a remark as correct as it is general, that the pre- scriptions of the best physician are useless unless they be timely and properly ad- ministered, and attended to by the nurse; as, also, that the whole plans of a judicious medical adviser, for the cure of diseases, or the relief of danger and suffering, may be defeated by the ignorance, carelessness, or waywardness of the female attendant whose duty it is to receive and execute the instructions of the physician. I have written the following pages less with a view to create the business of nursing into an independent calling, than to impress those who engage in it with the importance of understanding their relations with a class of men who devote years to the acquisition of the science, and then exercise themselves for years beside, before they become masters of the art of healing.