A reference hand-book for nursesBeck, Amanda K. (Amanda Kathryn)
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A reference hand-book for nurses
Beck, Amanda K. (Amanda Kathryn)
Nursing
Dr. Macfarlane’s work is a companion to Dr. Wilson’s successful book.
Both are flexibly bound in red leather with gold stamping, and fit into
the pocket. Here you get chapters on anatomy, physiology, hygiene,
menstrual disorders, gynecologic examinations and positions, douches,
diseases and their treatment, gynecologic operations—preparation for
them, after-care, etc.—urinary organs, rectal diseases. The text is
illustrated. It is decidedly a book you will carry with you in your
pocket.
=Second Edition—Published May, 1913.=
By CATHARINE MACFARLANE, M. D. Cloth, $1.50 net.
BECK’S REFERENCE HAND-BOOK
You get in this one volume such important information as the action,
use, and dosage of the important drugs, poisons, and their antidotes,
miscellaneous formulas, tests for albumin, infant feeding, nursing in
the acute fevers, disinfection, all information needed for surgical
cases, emergency helps, baths and packs, massage, electricity, recipes,
obstetrics, nursing in children’s diseases, miscellaneous remedies,
essential anatomy. This work has been called _the nurse’s encyclopedia_.
=Third Edition—Published February, 1913.=
By AMANDA K. BECK. Flexible leather, $1.50 net.
DUNTON’S OCCUPATION THERAPY
Dr. Dunton emphasizes the basic principles of occupational therapy and
gives those forms likely to be of most service to the nurse in private
practice. You get chapters on puzzles, reading, physical exercises,
card games, string, paper, wood, plastic and metal work, weaving,
basketry, chair-caning, book-binding, gardening, nature study, drawing,
painting, pyrography, needlework, photography, and music.
By WILLIAM RUSH DUNTON, JR., M. D. Cloth, $1.50 net.
=Published October, 1915.=
FRIEDENWALD and RUHRAH’S DIETETICS
This work gives the essentials of dietetics, and considers briefly the
chemistry and physiology of digestion. It gives you many _excellent
recipes_ for beverages, cereals, breads, vegetables, soups, milk
preparations, eggs, meats, raw beef, panopepton, meat jellies, diabetic
foods. But the strong feature about this book is the practical
information it gives you on the _dietetic management_ of your cases.
Then you get the milk cure, the salt-free diet, the _dietetic
management of surgical cases_, diet after operations, etc.
=Fourth Edition.=
By JULIUS FRIEDENWALD, M. D.,
and JOHN RUHRAH, M. D.
Cloth, $1.50 net. =Published July, 1917.=
McCOMBS’ DISEASES of CHILDREN
Dr. McCombs emphasizes _just those points you most want to know_.
He gives you a short but adequate description of each disease,
considerable attention to prophylaxis, methods of nursing, emergency
measures, illustrated descriptions of how to take the temperature,
pulse, respiration, perform intubation, give hypodermics, etc. You get
also special chapters on infant feeding, modification of milk, and
therapeutic measures employed in childhood.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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