A Nursing Manual for Nurses and Nursing Orderlies

Of the making of books specially written for nurses there seems no end, and the volume under review is a typical example ?f its class. The captious critic searches in vain for inaccuracies ?r omissions, while the style is eminently readable. The arrangement may be described as regional, each system being treated by itself, and a description of the diseases of the system being Preceded by an account of its anatomy and physiology. There is much to be said for this arrangement, even if, on casual inspection, it seems to involve rather a mixture of subjects. *o give an instance of what is meant, a description of a bedPan immediately precedes, on the same page, an account of the pathology of infantile paralysis. To sum up, it may be said that the author has produced a volume which contains an enormous amount of information,