Description: Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is not. by Florence Nightingale First British edition, second issue, signed by the author London: Harrison, [1860]. First Edition, early issue. Signed by the author on the title page and inscribed "From Florence Nightingale Mar 14, 1860"; Additional ownership signature in a different hand of "A. Russell Pollock, Greenhill, Paisley" inked beneath Nightingale's inscription. Bound in twentieth-century blue morocco with spine lettered in gilt, with original brown limp cloth covers bound in at front and rear (cup ring stain to upper cover). With "[The Right of Translation is reserved.]" at foot of title page, original yellow endpapers with printed advertisements dated 1860. Near Fine with light wear to binding, fading to spine and lightly so to covers. Offsetting to modern cream endsheets from wide turn-ins, former owner name in light pencil to front free endpaper. Inked date to original front pastedown, contents tanned. Alexander Russell Pollock (1821-1884) was the son of James Pollock and Isabella Russell of Greenhill, Paisley, Scotland. Alexander was a partner in the firm James Pollock and Co., a merchant and yarn agent based in Causeyside. He married Margaret Amelia Pollock, the daughter of Matthew Pollock in Stillorgan, Dublin, on 27 April 1859 and they had 19 children in the space of 16 years. Alexander died on 23 October 1884 in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France, at the age of 63, and was buried in his hometown. An obituary was published in the Paisley Gazette on November 1, 1884. Alexander amassed a large library and collection of coins, medals, manuscripts and other antiques which were sold in a series of auction sales in 1889. Signed copies of this landmark medical work are scarce. "Defining nursing as 'helping the patient to live,' Nightingale 'introduced the modern standards of training and esprit de corps, and early grasped the idea that diseases are not 'separate entities, which must exist, like cats and dogs,' but altered conditions, qualitative disturbances of normal physiological processes, through which the patient is passing. While she did not know the bacterial theory of infectious diseases, she realized that absolute cleanliness, fresh air, pure water, light, and efficient drainage are the surest means of preventing them" (Garrison-Morton, History of Medicine, p. 773). Bishop & Goldie, p. 16.
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Author: Nightingale, Florence
Publisher: Harrison
Year Printed: 1860
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Signed
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
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