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Our Nurses. By H. C. O'Neill and Edith A. Barnett.

(Ward and Lock.)—This volume is an expansion, as we gather from the preface, of lectures given by the writers. It tells us what nurses have to do, what qualifications a nurse should have (one might be tempted to parody Rasselas's words about a poet), and what may be done by persons not regularly trained. Then it treats of a number of the experiences which the nurse will have to deal with, the methods which she should use at various times and under various circumstances. Such subjects as "Food and Feeding," " Cleanliness," and " Convalescence," are discussed, and detailed instruction is given about the " Sickroom," the " Bed," &c.

most useful volume this, written as it is by two experts, who between them take in the whole subject.