A Picture of Health: Hospitals and Nursing on Old Picture Postcards

Cynthia O'Neill

History

Diggory Press

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A collection of hundreds of superstitions and old wives tales from every corner of the world related to every aspect of pregnancy, birth and babycare. This covers every aspect of baby folklore; from beliefs on determining baby's sex at conception, to beliefs on easing baby's teething pains.

Baby Lore: Superstitions And Old Wives Tales from the World over Related to Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Care

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rosalind Franklin

Women's Health

Written from the French Front by a brave Red Cross nurse, these home letters were hurriedly penned amidst the incessant roar of mighty guns and surrounded by the wounded and the dying. Shivering at times with cold, and wearied almost to the point of exhaustion from working every day from 5.30am to 9pm, they give a fascinating glimpse into the life of a nurse at war.

Nurses at the Trenches: Letters Home from a World War 1 Nurse

Medical Books

Warner, Agnes

Nursing

<p>A British Nurse's experiences working on the Belgian Front during the First World War</p>

A War Nurse's Diary: Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital

Biographies & Memoirs

A World War 1. Nurse

Community & Culture

American Nurses in the early 1800's were for the most part drunks, illiterate and totally unreliable. Then inspired by Florence Nightingale's example in England, Bellevue Nurse Training School in New York came into being, changing the face of American Nursing. Well-to-do women in their hundreds flocked to train as nurses and gain a profession. This book talks about this era, giving details about nursing training at both Bellevue & its ‘Sister School’, Connecticut School for Nurses. Personal accounts from the 1800's of Night Duty, Visiting Nurse's Tenement work, assisting surgeons in operating theatres and visiting the mental asylums are given. Advice to nurse recruiters of the day is also included, listing a nurse's ideal qualities as: ‘One who is accustomed to playing lawn tennis, who can ride, skate and row, makes the best material. If she can dance is a great advantage for graceful carriage is a thing to be cultivated. If in addition to being well-formed she is favored with good looks it is all the better’ Containing seven rare engravings of Nursing, this book is a nostalgic treat for all nurses.

The Nightingale Sisters: The Making of a Nurse in 1800's America

Franklin, Rosalind

<p>A treasury of advice tips for the Edwardian nurse including: - Unless you know your male patient very well, do not attempt to read him aloud the stock market levels from a newspaper, for it is well nigh impossible for a woman to read them so that a man will understand her. - Never go about a sick room with a long face; it is enough for the sick one to have to be sick; you are there to be a help and a comfort, not an added anxiety. - The servants require pretty careful handling. Above all things, keep on the right side of the cook.</p>

The Nurse's Calling: Practical Hints to Graduate Nurses in the Early 1900's

Lounsbery, Harriet Camp

Sarah Emma Edmonds was born in New Brunswick, Canada in 1842, the fifth daughter of Isaac and Elisabeth Leeper Edmondson. Her father, a farmer, was bitterly disappointed with Sarah as he had wanted a son to work his land for him. Sarah tried very hard to be the boy her father always wanted, abandoning female dress and becoming an expert horsewoman and markswoman. However, this was all to no avail: sadly, she never won the approval of Isaac. In 1859, she ran away from home to escape the man she described as ‘The Brutal Father’. Sarah fled to the USA, where dressing as a man to draw less attention to herself, she adopted the name of ‘Frank Thompson’. By 1861, ‘Frank’ was working selling Bibles door-to-door in Flint, Michigan, and so successful in ‘his’ guise that he was escorting young ladies in ‘his’ carriage. When President Lincoln issued his first call for volunteer troops, ‘Frank’ wanted to answer the call and patriotically serve ‘his’ new homeland. The army at that time didn't require a full physical examination. However, it still took ‘Frank’ four tries to get into the Union Army. On April 25, 1861, Sarah Emma Edmonds alias Frank Thompson became a male nurse in Company F, of the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment. This is 'his' story.

Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy In The Union Army: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army

Sarah Emma Edmonds

S. Emma E. Edmonds

The Battle of Mons, The Battle of le Cateau, The Great Retreat, Over the Marne to the Aisne, The Battle of the Aisne, The Move to the North, Round la AssÉe, The Beginning of Winter 1914, St Jans Cappel, Behind the Lines.....etc

Adventures of a Motorcycle Despatch Rider During the First World War

Watson, W. H. L.

Leaders & Notable People

SHOOTING CIVILIANS IN BELGIUM NEARLY BURIED ALIVE ON THE BATTLEFIELD SOLDIERS SHOOTING THEIR OWN OFFICERS MARCHING TO THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE THE BEGINNING OF TRENCH WARFARE IN THE HELL OF VAUQUOIS AND MORE... A vivid description of the life of a common German soldier. This soldier was a forced conscript in Kaiser's army despite disagreeing with it, but was nevertheless obliged to conform to the etiquette of war. He was a hater of militarism - for him there was no romance in war, but only butchery and brutality, grime and vermin, inhuman toil and degradation. His story also contains the first German description of the retreat of the Teutonic armies after the battle of the Marne. He eventually deserted and fled to America as a stowaway in the coal bunker of a Dutch ship. "Christmas in the trenches! It was bitterly cold. We had procured a pine tree, for there were no fir trees to be had. We had decorated the tree with candles and cookies, and had imitated the snow with wadding. Christmas trees were burning everywhere in the trenches, and at midnight all the trees were lifted on to the parapet with their burning candles, and along the whole line German soldiers began to sing Christmas songs in chorus. "0, thou blissful, 0, thou joyous, mercy bringing Christmas time!" Hundreds of men were singing the song in that fearful wood. Not a shot was fired; the French had ceased firing along the whole line. That night I was with a company that was only five paces away from the enemy. The Christmas candles were burning brightly, and were renewed again and again. For the first time we heard no shots. "From everywhere, throughout the forest, one could hear powerful carols come floating over "Peace on earth—" The French left their trenches and stood on the parapet without any fear. There they stood, quite overpowered by emotion, and all of them with cap in hand. We, too, had issued from our trenches. We exchanged gifts with the French—chocolate, cigarettes, etc. They were all laughing, and so were we; why, we did not know. Then everybody went back to his trench, and incessantly the carol resounded, ever more solemnly, ever more longingly—"O, thou blissful—" "All around silence reigned; even the murdered trees seemed to listen; the charm continued, and one scarcely dared to speak. Why could it not always be as peaceful? We thought and thought, we were as dreamers, and had forgotten everything about us. Suddenly a shot rang out; then another one was fired somewhere. The spell was broken. All rushed to their rifles. A rolling fire. Our Christmas was over."

Warrior Against His Will: A German Sapper's Account of World War One

Koettgen, J.

Historical

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