A NEW IMPORTANT BOOK FOR NURSES 



Materia Medica for Nurses 



BY A. S. BLUMGARTEN, M.D. 



INSTRUCTOR IN MATERIA MEDICA AT THE GERMAN HOSPITAL TRAINING 

 SCHOOL FOR NURSES, NEW YORK. 



8w, ill. 



This book is unique, as it is planned along lines 

 not before attempted. It is in plain, simple English, 

 intensely interesting in style, and is written along strictly 

 pedagogic lines. It therefore contains clear, concise in- 

 struction throughout. Stress has been laid upon teaching 

 facts, not words, with the result that, while thoroughly 

 scientific, the book is free from the technical terminology 

 in which seems to lie the fault of so many text-books 

 for nurses. 



It will assist and train the nurse in the observation 

 of the effects of drugs as produced upon actual patients 

 in the wards. The physiological action is particularly 

 arranged to facilitate the retention of the facts pre- 

 sented. A special feature will be found in an original 

 and very elaborate chapter on " Solutions." It enables 

 the nurse to handle any problem in the calculation and 

 administration of a required dose of a drug, or to make 

 up any required solution. There is also a chapter on 

 " Prescription Reading," and there are numerous tables 

 such as " Saturation Points," " Comparative Action of 

 Various Drugs," etc., scattered throughout the text. It 

 also contains all the new and non-official remedies in 

 common use. 



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