Front matter

BY

AMANDA K. BECK, R. N.

Graduate of the Illinois Training School for Nurses

FOURTH EDITION, REVISED

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON

W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY 1919

Copyright, 1905, by W. B. Saunders and Company. Reprinted August, 1905, July, 1906, June, 1907, and January, 1908. Revised, reprinted, and recopyrighted August, 1908. Reprinted March, 1909, February, 1910, July, 1910, March, 1911, February, 1912, and August, 1912. Revised, reprinted, and recopyrighted February, 1913. Reprinted October, 1913, May, 1914, November, 1914, January, 1915, May, 1915, September, 1915, June, 1916, January, 1917, July, 1917, November, 1917, April, 1918, and August, 1918. Revised, reprinted, and recopyrighted March, 1919

Copyright, 1919, by W. B. Saunders Company

PRINTED IN AMERICA

PRESS OF W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY PHILADELPHIA

TO ISABEL McISAAC

For many years Superintendent of the Illinois Training School for Nurses, of Chicago

AND TO IDORA C. ROSE

Formerly her Assistant and now her Successor

THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED