EXPLANATORY LECTURES FOR NURSES AND THEIR TEACHERS.
Explanatory Lectures for Nurses and their Teachers. By H. Hawkins-Dempster. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.) —Miss Hawkins-Dempster has written a book that should prove exceedingly useful to members of Women's Voluntary Aid Detachments who have already learned the A B C of their work. The volume is divided into lectures, one, for example, upon the keeping of temperature charts, with interesting particulars as to the meaning of certain temperature and pulse variations ; another upon vaccines and "immunity"; and a group of three lectures upon paralysis. These lectures are neither written in language so scientific as to be incomprehensible to the ordinary reader, nor so popular as to be insulting to the intelligent student, and if the style has suffered a little from the fact that they actually are lectures, not short essays, it is never so involved as to obscure the author's meaning. Altogether, the book is an excellent one, and should, we repeat, prove of great value and interest to members of Voluntary Aid Detachments as well as to the nurses to whom it is addressed..
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