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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Nurse's Guide, and Family Assistant; Containing Friendly Cautions to Those Who Are in Health: With Ample Directions to Nurses and Others who Attend the Sick, Women in Childbed etc. |
| Reference | 66921.D |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Date | 1819 |
| Author | Johnson, Robert Wallace |
| Publisher / Printer / Lithographer | Finley, Anthony |
| Place of Creation | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Description | Second American Edition. The earliest American nursing books were reprints of English books with notes by anonymous American editors (Am. Ed.") The distinction between a paid nurse and a servant or a family member was hazy at this time. |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Health and Hygiene; Children's Health; Women's Health; General Cures |
| Keywords | diet, disease, hygiene, childbirth, pregnancy, recipe, medicine, burns, fever, hospital |
| Additional Information | Johnson's 'Friendly Cautions' was first published anonymously at London in 1767 under the title: 'Some friendly cautions to the heads of families'. The 'Friendly Cautions' is essentially a treatise on home nursing. Robert Wallace Johnson was a pupil of the Scottish obstetrician William Smellie (1697-1763) and the author of 'A new system of Midwifery' (1st ed., London, 1769). |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan. |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |