The continued and increasing popularity of this little volume has placed the publishers under the obligation of keeping it abreast of the times, of making it reflect the latest advances in the progressive profession of nursing. Unfortunately, the early and lamented death of the author necessitated the entrusting of the revision to other hands. The publishers, therefore, stimulated by the marked favor accorded former editions, availed themselves of the services of a physician who for a number of years has been actively engaged in supervising the instructing and training of nurses, and they are glad to say that they have secured a revision which, while it is thorough, still preserves the originality and the personal and practical character of the book that won for it an immediate and widespread recognition. The revision has been extensive—every page having been carefully scrutinized, and considerable portions having been either amended, modified, or amplified in accordance with the progressive spirit of medicine and its handmaid, nursing. The sections treating of certain diseases, especially the infectious diseases, as well as the treatment of the common poisonings, etc., have been in large part recast and rewritten. Many minor but scarcely less important changes have been made in different parts of the book, with a view to extend its usefulness and to enhance its trustworthiness. The publishers therefore venture to hope that in its third revised dress the book may prove as acceptable to a large circle of nurses as did the earlier editions.

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