Description
A first edition, second issue of Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale, published by Harrison, London in 1860. A very good copy with a previous owner’s name and date in black ink to the title page, the soft covers with gilt titling, advertising end-papers with relevant points to mark it as second issue, Burke’s Peerage on the front paste-down and Harrison bookseller to the rear, some splitting to the spine, bumping and rubbing to the corners and mild soiling to front cover.
Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not sets out the principles of caring for the sick. Drawing on practical experience, she emphasises ventilation, cleanliness, light, quiet, warmth and careful observation, alongside appropriate food and bedding. Written for anyone responsible for another person’s health, the book presents nursing as skilled, attentive work. It became a foundational text of modern nursing, linking patients’ recovery to the conditions in which they lived.
