Mary Evelyn Essex Carter, Lecture Notebooks
Level of description
Fonds
Reference code
A.2007.0001
Date
7/10/1920-16/10/1922
Extent and medium
2 volumes
Administrative / Biographical History
Carter trained at St. Mary's Hospital, Armley, Leeds in 1922-1923. The collection consists of her nurse training notebooks.
Scope and content
Two training notebooks compiled by Mary Evelyn Essex Carter. Subjects include hospital etiquette, application of opium and belladonna, using baths to treat patients, implementation of charts and charting, types of cough, how to prevent bedsores, joints or articulations, rigor mortis, nervous tissue, nursing and feeding sick children, bronchitis, the liver, the kidneys, Supna-Renal Capsules, urine testing, poisons, scarlet fever, eye diseases.
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Not permitted
Language
English