The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington.

Warrington, Joseph, -1888

Date:: 1839

Credit: The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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PREFACE. Having, in common with a number of my professional friends who are also engaged in superintending the cases of parturient fe- males, encountered many difficulties and suffered much anxiety on account of the general want of proper intelligence and qualification in nurses to the lying-in cham- ber, I have felt that it was due from some member of the profession, to place before this class of persons, (whose services, if properly performed, are highly important,) a sketch of the qualities necessary for a woman who proposes to enter upon so

The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington.

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