1748 CADOGAN, William (1711 – 1797)
An essay upon nursing, and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age.
Cadogan’s famous essay laid down rules on the nursing, feeding, and clothing of infants, and filled a great need at a time when infant welfare was much neglected through the ignorance of those concerned. As a result o…
GMN 6322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8092
1782 MAI, Franz Anton (1742 – 1814)
Unterricht für Krankenwärter zum Gebrauch öffentlicher Vorlesungen.
The first German book on nursing--a manual of instructions for male nurses. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. (Thanks for Webb Dordick for this reference.)
GMN 14120 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16431
1786 CARRÈRE, Joseph Barthélemy François
Manuel pour le service des malades, ou précis des connoissances nécessaires aux personnes chargées du soin des malades, femmes en couche, enfans nouveaux-nés, &c.
The first French book on nursing. Digital facsimile of the 1787 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. (Thanks to Webb Dordick for this reference.)
GMN 14119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16430
1837 CHILD, Lydia Maria Francis (1802 – 1880)
The family nurse; or companion of the frugal housewife. Revised by a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Child was was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audie…
GMN 10411 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12604
1851 –1854 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Klinische Chirurgie. 3 pts.
Pirogov is considered the greatest Russian surgeon and one of the greatest military surgeons of all time. He was among the first in Europe to employ ether anesthesia. He served in the Crimean campaign and was responsi…
GMN 5601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7101
1856 TAYLOR, Frances Margaret (1832 – 1900)
Eastern hospitals and English nurses; the narrative of twelve months' experience in the hospitals of Koulali and Scutari by a lady volunteer. 2 vols.
Taylor accompanied Florence Nightingale to Scutari, and worked as nurse in the military hospitals. She provided one of the first eye-witness acounts of military hospitals at Scutari and Koulali, and wrote about the ma…
GMN 7809 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9981
1857 HAESER, Heinrich (1811 – 1884)
Geschichte christlicher Krankenpflege und Pflegerschaften.
Reprinted, Bad Reichenhall, Kleinert, 1966.
GMN 6634 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7729
1860 NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910)
Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not.
After receiving training in Germany and France, Florence Nightingale had some nursing experience in England. The Crimean war gave her an opportunity to demonstrate the value of trained nurses. Within a few months of h…
GMN 1612 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1912
1864 EDMONDS, Sarah Emma (1841 – 1898)
The female spy of the union army. The thrilling adventures, experiences, and escapes of a woman nurse, spy, and scout, in hospitals, camps and battlefields.
Digital facsimile of a reprint of the 1864 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Reissued in 1865 as Nurse and spy in the Union Army: Containing the adventures and experience of a woman in hospitals, camps, …
GMN 8994 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11173
1865 NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910)
Organization of nursing: An account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing by a member of the Committee of the Home & Training School. With an introduction, and notes, by Florence Nightingale.
The Liverpool Training School and Home for Nurses was established in 1865, from which a district nursing system was implemented in Liverpool through the 1860s. This system eventually spread throughout England. Digital…
GMN 11562 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13761
1866 CUMMING, Kate (1830 – 1909)
A journal of hospital life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the end of the war: With sketches of life and character, and brief notices of current events during that period.
"[B]y far the fullest and most informative of narratives of the Confederate women who served as nurses" (In Tall Cotton). Cumming responded to calls for volunteers and worked as a field nurse from 1862 through the end…
GMN 13706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15990
1867 HOLSTEIN, Anna Morris (1824 – 1900)
Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15616
1870 FREEMAN, Julia Susan Wheelock (1833 – 1900)
The boys in white: The experience of a hospital agent in and around Washington.
An account of the author's experiences as a nurse working in Washington, D.C. hospitals during the U.S. Civil War. Wheelock became known as the "Florence Nightingale of Michigan." Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trus…
GMN 13032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15282
1878 WHITE, Victoria
A manual of nursing prepared for the Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital. [Compiled and edited by Dr. Victoria White.]
The Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital opened in 1873, the first school in United States run according to Florence Nightingale's nursing principles. Among other things, these principles called fo…
GMN 11536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13735
1878 CONNECTICUT TRAINING-SCHOOL FOR NURSES
A hand-book of nursing for family and general use. Published under the direction of the Connecticut Training-School for Nurses, State Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
The Connecticut Training-School for Nurses opened in 1873, and the first edition of this manual was copyright 1878, the same year as the Bellevue manual. However, it is believed that the first copies of this work were…
GMN 11538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13737
1885 WEEKS-SHAW, Clara S.
A text-book of nursing for the use of training schools, families, and private students. Compiled by Clara S. Weeks-Shaw.
This was the first textbook on nursing formally written by a nurse credited on the title page. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1899) from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11537 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13736
1888 LIVERMORE, Mary Ashton Rice (1820 – 1905)
My story of the war: The Civil War memories of the famous nurse, relief organizer and suffragette.
GMN 8996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11175
1890 NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910); RATHBONE, William VI (1819 – 1902)
Sketch of the history & progress of district nursing, from its commencement in the year 1859 to the present date, including the foundation by the "Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute" for nursing the poor in their own home
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11561 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13760
1893 ROBB, Isabel Adams Hampton (1859 – 1910)
Nursing: Its principles and practice for hospital and private use.
Isabel Hampton Robb was the first Superintendent of Nurses at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her textbook standardized the education of nursing in the U.S. and abroad. It included an outline for a 3-year long nu…
GMN 14364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16696
1894 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913); HURD, Henry Mills (1843 – 1927)
Hospitals dispensaries and nursing. Papers and discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893. Edited by John S. Billings and Henry M. Hurd.
Includes almost 90 articles on all aspects of hospitals and nursing, by luminaries such Henry Burdett, Lavinia Dock, Cardinal Gibbons, Isabel Hampton, Henry Lyman, and Lewis Pilcher, among dozens of others. Florence N…
GMN 11267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13464
1895 HOLLAND, Mary A. Gardner
Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11180
1898 BARTON, Clarissa (1821 – 1912)
The Red Cross in peace and war.
Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…
GMN 7058 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9225
1902 SENN, Nicholas (1844 – 1908)
A nurse's guide for the operating room. Published under the direction of the Sisters of Charity, St. Joseph's Hospital.
Distinctively, Senn devoted his first chapter to the "Preparation of Operating Room in a Private House," suggesting that surgeons may have been frequently called upon to perform operations in homes when the book was p…
GMN 13220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15484
1904 DELEE, Joseph Bolivar (1869 – 1942)
Obstetrics for nurses.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9530 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11716
1907 –1912 NUTTING, Mary Adelaide (1858 – 1948); DOCK, Lavinia Lloyd (1858 – 1956)
A history of nursing. The evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses [and] From the earliest times to the present day with special reference to the work of the past thirty years. 4 vols.
Vols. 3-4 by L.L Dock only.
GMN 6635 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7731
1910 DOCK, Lavinia Lloyd (1858 – 1956)
Hygiene and morality: A manual for nurses and others, giving an outline of the medical, social, and legal aspects of the venereal diseases.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15481
1912 SANDERS, Georgiana Jane (1864 – )
Modern methods in nursing.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12606
1916 AIKENS, Charlotte Albina (1868 – 1949)
Studies in ethics for nurses.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8599 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10776
1919 AIKENS, Charlotte Albina (1868 – 1949)
Training school methods for institutional nurses.
Digital facsimiles from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8600 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10777
1922 DOCK, Lavinia Lloyd (1858 – 1956); NOYES, Clara Dutton (1869 – 1936); CLEMENT, Fannie Fletcher (1881 – 1950); FOX, Elizabeth Gordon (1884 – 1958)
History of American Red Cross nursing.
By six authors. Also authored by Sarah Elizabeth Pickett, and Anna R. van Meter. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9933 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12121
1926 NUTTING, Mary Adelaide (1858 – 1948)
A sound economic basis for schools of nursing and other addresses.
Nutting was a member of the first graduating class of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1891, and by 1894 its superintendent of nurses and principal. She left Hopkins in 1907 for Teachers College at Columbia Univ…
GMN 14363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16695
1927 LOVEJOY, Esther Pohl (1869 – 1967)
Certain samaritans.
A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…
GMN 7842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10014
1929 THOMS, Adah Belle (1870 – 1943)
Pathfinders: A history of the progress of colored graduate nurses. With biographies of many prominent nurses.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 13079 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15331
1940 BENNETT, Abram Elting (1898 – ); PURDY, Avis B.
Psychiatric nursing technic.
GMN 13073 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15325
1943 JENSEN, Deborah Maclurg (1900 – 1962)
History of nursing.
Second edition, History and trends of professional nursing, 1950.
GMN 6636 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7733
1946 ROBINSON, Victor (1866 – 1947)
White caps: The story of nursing.
GMN 8899 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11077
1951 MORRISSEY, Alice B.; RUSK, Howard A. (1901 – 1989)
Rehabilitation nursing. Foreward by Howard A. Rusk.
The first book on rehabilitation nursing, including a historical survey of rehabilitation and a study of the incidence of disability in the U.S. Morrissey conducted her research in association with the Institute of Ph…
GMN 14367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16699
1953 LAMBERTSEN, Eleanor C. (1916 – 1998)
Nursing team organization and functioning.
Lambertsen developed "team nursing," a system of integrated care distributing the care of a patient among a team working together. In team nursing the registered nurse (RN) functions as a team leader, and coordinates …
GMN 14369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16701
1954 JOHNS, Ethel (1878 – 1968); PFEFFERKORN, Blanche
The Johns Hopkins Hospital school of nursing, 1889-1949.
GMN 11268 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13465
1959 PAVEY, Agnes Elizabeth (1889 – )
The story of the growth of nursing as an art, a vocation, and a profession. Fifth edition.
GMN 6637 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7735
1959 SHRYOCK, Richard Harrison (1893 – 1972)
The history of nursing: An interpretation of the social and medical factors involved.
GMN 6638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7737
1960 ABEL-SMITH, Brian (1926 – 1996)
A history of the nursing profession.
Covers England and Wales only.
GMN 6639 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7739
1961 STAUPERS, Mabel Keaton
No time for prejudice: A story of the integration of negroes in nursing in the United States.
Primarily a history of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses [NACGN], which existed for the express purpose of "promoting unity within the nursing profession and furthering the cause of democracy." Integ…
GMN 12015 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14223
1962 NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910); BISHOP, William John (1903 – 1961); GOLDIE, Sue M.
A bio-bibliography of Florence Nightingale.
Completed and edited for publication by Sue M. Goldie after the death of William J. Bishop.
GMN 13164 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15423
1968 THOMPSON, Alice Mary Charlotte (1907 – 1981)
A bibliography of nursing literature, 1859-1960.
Includes sections on history and biography. Supplement 1961-70, 1974.
GMN 6639.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7741
1980 ROPES, Hannah (1809 – ); BRUMGARDT, John R.
Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.
GMN 8999 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11178
1985 DONAHUE, Mary Patricia (1925 – )
Nursing: the finest art. An illustrated history.
The most elaborately illustrated history available.
GMN 6639.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7742
1986 CARNEGIE, Mary Elizabeth (1916 – 2008)
The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.
GMN 8088 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10264
1987 REVERBY, Susan Mokotoff (1946 – )
Ordered to care: The dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945.
GMN 8601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10778
1987 NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910); GOLDIE, Sue M.
"I have done my duty." Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Edited by Sue M. Goldie.
Nightingale's correspondence, 1854-1856.
GMN 13165 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15424
