Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not. By Florence Nightingale. [Facsimile of first American edition published in 1860 by D. Appleton and Co., New York.] Cloth. Price, $1.35. Pp. 79. J. B. Lippincott Company, 227-231 S. 6th St., Philadelphia 5, 1946. These are two editions of "Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not," by Florence Nightingale. The two publishers have simultaneously produced facsimiles of this book by Florence Nightingale. The book by D. Appleton-Century Company has a preface by Virginia M. Dunbar and is a facsimile of the first American edition which was published in 1860 by Appleton and contains the Appleton advertisements that were then published in the end of the book. The book by Lippincott has a foreword by Annie W. Goodrich and is a facsimile of the first London edition printed in 1859, including the advertisements of the publisher