Howard, Russell: Surgical Nursing and the Principles of Surgery for Nurses [sixth edition]
- 406 NU/4/3/24
- Stuk
- 1930
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: Edward Arnold & Co., London
Ownership inscription: Stella Howson, December 1931
Howard, Russell: Surgical Nursing and the Principles of Surgery for Nurses [sixth edition]
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: Edward Arnold & Co., London
Ownership inscription: Stella Howson, December 1931
Matthias, A. Marjorie; Penfold, Margaret J.; Fry, Susan: Illustrated Guide for Theatre Nurses
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: Butterworths, London
Inscription: Barbara, with best wishes, Susan
With Foreword by Rodney Smith and Introduction by Muriel Powell. Note that the authors of this book worked at St George's Hospital.
Moroney, James: Surgery for Nurses [eleventh edition]
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: E. & S. Livingstone, Edinburgh and London
Ownership inscription: Sally Nock
Nash, D. F. Ellison: The Principles and Practice of Surgical Nursing
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: Edward Arnold, London
Ownership inscription: Heather M. Bond, St George's Hospital, London, 29-9-58
Pearce, Evelyn: Instruments, Appliances and Theatre Technique [second edition]
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
Ownership inscription: Phyllis E. Marsh, Q.A.R.N.N.S./R. [Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Reserve], September 1943, Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar
The inside covers are annotated in pencil.
Armstrong, Katharine F.: Aids to Surgical Nursing [sixth edition]
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, London
Ownership inscription: Adrienne E. Kaye
Note that this item has been catalogued out of alphabetical author sequence because it was discovered at a later date, but it has been shelved next to the other Armstrong book (NU/4/3/5).
Bailey, Hamilton; Love, R. J. MacNeill: Surgery for Nurses
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: H. K. Lewis & Co., London
Ownership inscription: Phyllis E. Marsh, St George's Hospital, July 1937
Burrows, Harold: Surgical Instruments and Appliances Used in Operations [fourth edition]
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: The Scientific Press, London
Ownership inscription [on cover]: D. Clark
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Brown album – inscribed on the inside cover '"Jacques", with love, 1934' – containing black and white/sepia photographs apparently taken or collected by Clara Jeynes, who trained as a nurse at St George's. Includes images (with handwritten captions) of St George's Hospital (including theatres), Hyde Park, Princess Mary's Wedding Day (1922), the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (1924), other workplaces in Walsall and Southport, and various personal photographs (including a group labelled 'Memories of Surrey Sundays'), a few of which have been inserted loose.
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Steel amputation saw manufactured by Allen & Hanburys, London
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Metal aneurysm needle manufactured by W. B. Hilliard & Sons, Glasgow (maker's stamp only partly legible)
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Two tubes (glass enclosed in cardboard) of sterilised surgical sutures/ligatures, labelled as follows:
Post Mortem Examinations and Case Books
The post mortem records contain manuscript case notes, with medical notes both pre and post mortem. These include details on patients’ admission to the hospital, treatments and medication administered to patients and the medical history of patients; the medical histories were copied into the volumes from hospital registers, which are no longer extant. The post mortem cases include detailed pathological findings made during the detailed examination of the body after death. From the 1880s onwards the case books contain original anatomical drawings and photographs.
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The following information is recorded for each case. The information is transcribed from the case notes and/or the relevant index and, where relevant, additionally standardised using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
• Name of the patient. If a name is not entered in the volume, it is noted in the catalogue as ‘[No name stated]’
• Gender of the patient (female / male / unknown)
• Age of the patient. Usually in numbers, following the original, with the following exceptions: 4/12 = 4 months, 4/52 = 4 weeks, 4/365 = 4 days. If no age is entered, it is noted in the catalogue as ‘[No age stated]’
• Occupation of the patient. Where no occupation is entered, it is noted in the catalogue as ‘[No occupation stated]’. Children are often designated according to their father’s or mother’s occupation and women by their husband’s occupation (e.g. ‘F / Horsekeeper’, ‘M. Charwoman’, ‘Hd Grocer’); these have been rendered in the catalogue as ‘[Child of] Horsekeeper’, ‘[Wife of] Grocer’
• Date of admission and date of death
• The names of the doctors treating or examining the patient. ‘Admitted under the care of’ denotes the senior doctor in charge of the case (usually entered at the top of the page and in the index); ‘Post mortem performed by’ denotes the doctor responsible for the post mortem examination (usually signed at the bottom of the page) and ‘Medical examination performed by’ denotes the doctor responsible for the medical examination prior to death (usually signed at the bottom of the page). The earliest records usually contain only one name, and some of the later ones may contain multiple names in each category. An authority record (name access point) with basic biographical details has been created for each doctor mentioned in the records; these can be used to explore all the cases related to a particular individual
• Disease(s) or cause of death of the patient. Transcribed from the medical case and/or the index and standardised, e.g. ‘Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Fractured base. Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (lungs). Fracture (skull)’
• Medical and post mortem notes. Brief summary description or transcription of the case notes relating to previous medical history (not a full transcription of the case notes)
• Note on whether the case includes illustrations or photographs; these can also be browsed via genre access points
• Note on whether the death was caused by trauma, accident or suicide
• Subject access points, using standardised terms from MeSH, with disease type (e.g. respiratory tract diseases, cardiovascular diseases) and anatomy type (e.g. cardiovascular system, musculoskeletal system), which can be used for browsing all relevant cases
Note on transcriptions and abbreviations
Names have been silently expanded, e.g. Jas = James, Wm = William
Some common abbreviations and acronyms
AMCH = Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital, Wimbledon
BID = Brought in dead
COA = Condition on admission
F = Father
H or Hd = Husband
HP = House physician
HS = House surgeon
IP = In-patient
L = Left
M = Mother
MR or Med reg or Med r = Medical register or Medical registrar
MS = Museum specimen
OP = Out-patient
OPD = Out-patient department
OR = Obstetric register
PMH = Previous medical history
PH = Previous history
Pt or Pat = Patient
PM = Post mortem
R = Right
RF = Rheumatic fever
Ry = Railway
SR or Surg reg = Surgical register or Surgical registrar
TB = Tuberculosis
VD = Venereal disease
Zonder titel
Croce, Giovanni Andrea della: Chirurgiae universalis opus ablolutum
Part of Rare books
Dalby, William B.: Short Contributions to Aural Surgery
Part of Rare books
Second edition
Allbutt, Thomas Clifford: The Historical Relations of Medicine and Surgery
Part of Rare books
Duncan, Andrew: Medical Commentaries, Vol. IX
Part of Rare books
Articles by various authors.
Full title: Medical Commentaries for the Year M.DCC.XCIV. Exhibiting a Concise View of the Latest and Most Important Discoveries in Medicine and Medical Philosophy, collected and published by Andred Duncan, M.D.F.R.&A.SS.Ed.’
Fabricius Hildanus, Guilhelmus: Opera Observationum et Curationum Medico-Chirurgicarum
Part of Rare books
Allingham, Herbert William: Operative Surgery
Part of Rare books
Gataker: Essays on Medical Subjects
Part of Rare books
Inscriptions inside front cover and on flyleaves: ‘Presented by Mr Hammerton June 17, 1815’, ‘St George’s Hospital Library’, ‘J. Hammerton’
Full title: ‘Essays on Medical Subjects, Originally printed separately; To which is now prefixed an Introduction relating to the use of hemlock and corrosive sublimate; and to the application of caustic medicines in cancerous disorders’
Granville, A.B.: Graphic Illustrations of Abortion and the Diseases of Menstruation
Part of Rare books
Inscription on title page: ‘Presented to the Medical Library, St George’s Hospital by Sir Benjamin Brodie Bart’
Full title: ‘Graphic Illustrations of Abortion and The Diseases of Menstruation. Consisting of Twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr J. Perry, and two copper-plates from the Philosophical Transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks, anatomical and physiological’
Gray, Henry: Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical
Part of Rare books
Inscription on title page: ‘W. Percy Reynolds July 1872’
Full title: Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and lecturer on Anatomy at St George’s Hospital Medical School. The drawings by H.V. Carter, M.D., late demonstrator of anatomy at St George’s Hospital; with additional drawings in the second and later editions by Dr Westmacott. The dissections jointly by the author and Dr Carter. Fifth edition, with an introduction on general anatomy and development, by T. Holmes, M.A. Cantab. Surgeon to St George’s Hospital: Mem.Correp. De La Soc. De Chir. De Paris’
Fifth edition
Grimsdale, Harold and Brewerton, Elmore: A Text-book of Ophthalmic Operations
Part of Rare books
Inscription on flyleaf: ‘Presented by the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow’
Second edition
Grimsdale, Harold and Brewerton, Elmore: A Text-book of Ophthalmic Operations
Part of Rare books
Pasted inside front cover: ‘Royal Society of Medicine Ophthalmological (Bowman) Library – Cancelled’. Inscription on flyleaf: ‘Donated by the Wellcome Medical Library February 1967’
Third edition
Grimsdale, Harold: Errors of Refraction and their correction
Part of Rare books
Inscription on flyleaf: 'May 1904’