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 DIETETICSM
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.