Nursing lecture notebook

Part of this is in a different hand to Lehmann (ink), so may have been given to her in order to use up the blank pages of the book. On the lower edge of the volume is written in ink 'J E Walters General Nursing'.

Lehmann's notes are in the middle of the volume, in pencil, in a distinctly Continental hand. These are notes of lectures given by Sister Tutor, Miss Field and Dr Healy, mostly dated, from Mar 1943-Mar 1944. Subjects covered include veneral diseases, weights and measures, dietetics, gynaeocology and obstetrics, surgery, fevers and infectious diseases, heart disease, skin diseases, materia medica (drugs). Notes include a patient case history dated Jul 1943, and Lehmann's various doodlings such as of the Star of David, Sister Tutor (probably), fellow students, etc. There are also two personal 'draft 'letters, one addressed to 'Dear Gerda' written whilst waiting for Sister Tutor to turn up to a gynaecology lecture, congratulating Gerda her on promotion to Staff Nurse and mentioning Bill who is "busy learning the Italian language", and one to Dear Miss [Edmunds] thanking her for the gifts of "bisquits (sic) and the the cake".

Notes in the non-Lehmann hand have been 'marked' by a tutor in red ink re spellings and standard of work (these are dated 21 Oct 1941-10 Feb 1942). Inside front cover contains a table in fahrenheit and centigrade indicating states associated with various points on the temperature scale (from fatal to healthy to weak). Lectures in this hand cover topics such as nursing ethics, hospital etiquette, bandaging, bed making - general and special beds, lifting and moving the patient, bathing a patient in the bath room, temperature, pulse and respiration, care of the patient's hair, bed sores. Illustrated with some diagrams and graphs.

Further notes in the non-Lehmann hand, starting from the reverse of the notebook, also 'marked' in red ink, headed 'Colindale Hospital Tuberculosis Lectures'. Covering pulmonary tuberculosis, how tuberculosis is acquired, mantoux reaction. Include a few pencil sketches and doodlings. These lectures dated June-July 1942 (some undated).

Oct 1941-Mar 1944

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