Lectures on Medical Nursing. By Dr. J. Wallace Anderson. (Maclehose.)—The
ten lectures here printed were delivered before the nurse-probationers of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The sections of the very important subject which they discuss are severally treated with clearness, precision, and sound judgment. Enough, not too mach, is said concerning such matters as lie upon the border territory which separates the domain of the physician from that of the nurse, the proper place and work of the nurse in observing symptoms and in carrying out faithfully the treatment prescribed by the doctor being firmly insisted on. The general duties of the nurse, as well as her special work in connection with the care of patients suffering from special diseases, occupy the greater number of these lectures, but there are many pages devoted to such subjects as food and its diges- tibility, invalid cookery, medicinal weights and measures, poisons and antidotes, medical terms, baths, temperature, ventilation, atc.
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