The nurse's guide, and family assistant
Subtitle: containing friendly cautions to those who are in health : with ample directions to nurses and others who attend the sick, women in child-bed, &c
By: by Robert Wallace Johnson
Edition: 2nd American ed. corr. / with an interesting appendix from "The Dublin Hospital Reports.".
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: Anthony Finley
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Home nursing; Cooking for the sick; Popular Medicine
Other titles: Nurse's guide, and family assistant, or companion for a sick chamber
Notes: The first American edition was published in Philadelphia in 1804 under title: Friendly cautions to the heads of families.

"Appendix. Additional instructions for the nurses of a fever hospital. ... from a medical report ... by J. Cheyne ... published in the first volume of the 'Dublin Hospital reports.'"--P. 169-180.

Reproduction of the original from the Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Princeton University.