This volume was published in 1917 and refers to nursing care
and training during World War I, which was then referred to as
The Great War.
About the author: Member of the Medical Staff, Woman's
Hospital, Philadelphia
- Formerly Adjunct Professor of, and Demonstrator of
Anatomy, Women's Medical College, Philadelphia;
Formerly Superintendent of Connecticut Training School
for Nurses, New Haven, etc.
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From the book's Preface:
The surgical literature of the Great War already
includes many scores of valuable and illuminating
articles contributed to various periodicals, and a
few books. From these voluminous sources, supple-
mented by letters from the front, it has been thought
desirable to collect the lessons and descriptions
which are of vital import, that they may be avail-
able for ready reference by those who contemplate
joining the nursing corps of Military Hospitals (or
have already done so), as their time is of necessity
too limited for the wide reading involved. Useful
suggestions have been received from those who have
been personally in service at the front, and indebted-
ness is hereby acknowledged to the valuable work
of Major Hull "Surgery in War" which has been
freely consulted and quoted in regard to descriptions
of methods practised by members of the Royal
Army Medical Corps of Great Britain.
Any attempt at completeness in a book of this
sort would be futile, as new methods are daily devised
and daily reported; the final word concerning any
will not be uttered while the war lasts; but the prin-
ciples upon which modern war surgery is based are
well established, and upon those lines is built the
groundwork, also, of surgical nursing in war time.
Elizabeth R. Bundy
1831 Chestnut Street
October, 1917
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Chapters:
I. Demands Upon the Surgical Nurse in the Military Hospital;
Importance of Preliminary Training
II. Missiles Used in Modern Warefare; Effects; Bacteria;
Their Prevalence in Battle Grounds
III. Effects of Bacterial Invasion; Immunity; How Secured
IV. Dangers of Infection; Shock; Hemorrhage
V. Antispectics; Hypochlorites; Saline Solutions; Dichloramin-T
and Others
VI. Condition of the Wounded Man; Effects of Exposure
and Exhaustion; General Care
VII. Mechanical Appliances; Splints; Plaster of Paris Dressings
VIII. Bath Treatment in Surgical Nursing; Burns; Tetanus;
Blood-Vessel Injuries; Gangrene
IX. Bone Injuries; Compound Fractures; Injured Joints
X. Injuries of the Head; Cranial Surgery; After-Care of
Patient; Shell Shock, etc.
XI. Injuries of the Cervical Region; of the Spine; of Nerves;
Effects and Symptoms
XII. Injuries of the Chest Wall; of Thoracid Organs; Operations
and Nursing Care; Injuries of the Abdomen; Hemorrhage;
Operations and After-Care
XIII. Other Conditions Incident to Warfare
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