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iiiiitiiiiiiii '^INGAtE ?,< 'IVi |l/rr«lj THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES GIFTOF DR. AND MRS. ELMER BELT /'- The Story of This Reprint To make available the first book on nursing by the founder of all modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, the original English edition of "Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not" has been reproduced in facsimile in 1946, eighty-seven years after its first issuance. Its basic discussion of bedside ntirsing, its sprightly comment, its common-sense evaltia- tions, all preserve a distinguished background to ntirsing and will be read and made a valti- able part of any nurse's armamentarium. Theappearanceof this facsimilereprintis the cidmination of an initial stiggestion from Helen G. McClelland, Director of Nursing of the Pennsylvania Hospital, plus the present scar- city of the first edition, which appeared in Lon- don over the Harrison imprint in 1859. The first available American edition followed in i860 over the imprint of D. Appleton and Company. This facsimile has been reproduced from the copy in the Rare Book Room of the Library of Congress, Wash- ington, D. C, and the original date and other details havebeencheckedwiththeLibraryoftheBritishMuseum in London. Philadelphia London Montreal LIPPINCOTT COMPANY B. J. Foreword The timeliness of the revival of "Notes on Nurs- ing," the plan and purpose of which is so clearly stated in Miss Nightingale's preface, cannot be ques- tioned. Nearly a century has passed since this woman of great vision and wide experience, as her last contri- bution to humanity, epitomized in terse, sometimes caustic, btit always convincing language, a message to the womanhood of the world. It is a book which shotild be owned not only by every member of the nursing profession, but which should find its place in every home, not to replace the ever-increasing body of knowledge relating to the development of that priceless possession of every nation, its child-life, but because it interprets in simple terms the age-old principle of healthy living. It should be noted that Florence Nightingale makes very clear the distinction between persons professionally qualified for the practice of nursing and the knowledge essential for every woman to whom may come at any time a call to render nursing service in some form. Though the message of this little book is for all, to none shotdd its appeal be stronger than to the American nurses of the twentieth centtiry who, as teachers, as citizens, and ofttimes as mothers, have, through their acquired knowledge, the responsi- bilities that citizenship in a democracy implies. It is a tragic fact that, despite almost phenomenal ad- vances in the art and science of living, ignorance, poverty and disease still obtain in great degree. Let us hope that this little book will, in this present edition, continue its career of usefidness. Annie W. Goodrich. NOTES ON NURSING: WHAT IT IS, AND WHAT IT IS NOT. BY FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. LONDON: HAERISON, PALL MALL, 59, BOOKSELLER TO THE QUEEN. [TherightofTranslationisreserved.] FBDITED BYHARBISONAMDSONS, ST, martin's lane, w.o. Facsimileof theFirstEdition,printedinLondon, 1859. Reproduced byoffset in /g^6 by Edward Stern & Company, Inc., Philadelphia Pennsylvania