Notes Hospitals Third Edition Enlarged by Nightingale Florence (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ix, 1 leaf [List of plans], 187 pp; 34 text figs.; 11 folding numbered plans of hospitals, 2 unnumbered folding plans of hospitals at back; folding statistical form; 2 folding tables pertaining to surgical operations. Original cloth, recently rebacked with original spine preserved. Corners of covers worn. Title page foxed. Two vertical creases in front flyleaf. Very Good. Third, and Final, Edition. SIGNED BY FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE TO ALBERT JENKINS HUMBERT: "Mr. Humbert/ Offered by/ Florence Nightingale/ Dec 16/63." Bishop & Goldie, A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale no. 101. In the Preface to this much enlarged and mostly rewritten third, and final, edition, Nightingale writes: "Since the publication of the first edition of that paper [1858], great advances have been made in the adoption of sound principles of hospital construction; and there are already a number of examples of new hospitals realizing all, or nearly all, the conditions required for the successful treatment of the sick and maimed poor. Besides this, much additional experience has been obtained in many important points, especially in the details of hospital buildings and fittings. In order to spread a knowledge of the progress already made, as well as of those principles which may now be considered as established, I have been asked to prepare the present edition. In doing this, it has been necessary to rewrite nearly the whole of it, and to make so many additions to the matter that it is in reality a new book. F. N." In 1859-60 Nightingale worked on the plans of the Lisbon Children's Hospital, for which Albert Jenkins Humbert was the architect and to whom. Florence Nightingale inscribed this copy. In this third edition of her Notes on Hospitals, she writes about the Lisbon Hospital: "The only plan of a children's hospital which realizes all the various conditions laid down is that to be erected at Lisbon, of which here is a sketch (No. 11). This plan possesses peculiar interest in account of its embodiment of a desire if the late king of Portugal [Pedro V], to commemorate his lost queen (Queen Estefania]. Our own beloved Albert . . . had every stage of the plan brought to him, and made constant suggestions--it being his anxious wish to introduce into Portugal in a model building all the recent improvements in hospital construction made in this country. The architect was Mr. Humbert, to whom the design was entrusted by the prince consort" (pp. 129-30). "While the full correspondence between [Humbert] and Nightingale is not available, her advice to him is . . ." (McDonald (ed.), Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform, p. 524; Nightingale's advice to Humbert is on pp. 526-31). Writing in 1879, Nightingale considered Humbert's Lisbon Hospital and the Pendlebury Hospital near Manchester to be the "only very good ones" for children (McDonald, ibid., p. 858). For Albert Jenkins Humbert in McDonald, ibid., see pp. 34, 175, 524-31, 657-58, 858, 951. Plan no. 11 is Children s Hospital, Lisbon. Signed by Author(s).

Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Major General Sir Henry Storks &c &c offered by one who has had the honour to serve under his command. F.N. 5/11/64 (Inkermann [sic] Day)". An excellent association copy: during the Crimean War, Henry Knight Storks (1811-1874) was in charge of the British establishments in Turkey, from the Bosphorus to Smyrna, and received the rank of major-general. He superintended the final British withdrawal from Turkey at the end of the war. Nightingale inscribed this copy on the ten-year anniversary of the Battle of Inkerman, a major British victory. Storks was a key ally for Nightingale's nursing reforms in the Crimea, which she often felt were hampered by the British military authorities, and she deemed him the only official who supported her. She wrote on 6 March 1856, "I have therefore fought my own battles. I can truly say unsupported by any official out here, with the exception of Genl. Storks" (in Goldie, p. 225). In May 1856 Nightingale was so exhausted by illness and overwork that she thought she was dying, and wrote to Storks with her last requests: "As you are of all those in office, whether at home or abroad, the officer who has given the most steady and constant support to the work entrusted to me by her Majesty's Government, I venture to appeal to you to continue that support after my death, and to carry out as far as possible my last requests" (ibid., p. 265). Nightingale recovered, and in 1857 had Storks appointed a member of the Royal Commission on the sanitary condition of the army. For many years after the pair continued to correspond on the welfare of the soldiers. Nightingale's Notes on Hospitals was first published in 1858, and the second edition in 1859. This third edition was completely revised and substantially expanded, and as Nightingale says in her preface, "it is in reality a new book". The work addresses sanitation and hospital architecture, arguing for the "pavilion" plan in which each hospital ward was composed of several wings to allow for air circulation and increased sunshine, as well as reducing infection rates by confining infectious patients to specific areas. The book "won Nightingale praise and inaugurated her career as an advisor to medical professionals all around the world, especially those involved with hospital and infirmary construction" (Orlando, Women's Writing in the British Isles). Bishop & Goldie 101. Sue Goldie, ed., Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea, 1997. Quarto. With 13 folding plates (including map of London and of Paris) and 3 folding tables. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers decorated in blind, brown endpapers. Housed in custom red cloth solander box. Wear at extremities with loss at head of spine (not affecting lettering), splitting to front joint, inner hinges a little tender with slight splits, contents clean, plan of Paris with small chip to outer edge affecting border without loss to image. A good, unrepaired copy.

Large 8vo, pp. ix, 1 leaf, pp. 187, 11 folding plans of hospitals, 3 folding samples of forms, and 2 large folding plans of London and Paris. Tear in fold of the large plan of Paris neatly repaired. Original dark mauve cloth (spine neatly repaired), brown endpapers, uncut. Paper very slightly browned in the margins, but a very good copy. Inscribed at the top of the title-page ?Presented to W.J. Nixon Esq. by the Council of the Nightingale Fund, Decmber 1874? and with the Fund?s blind stamp adjacent (William J. Nixon, House Governor, the London Hospital); signature of E.W. Goodall, Hampstead, Jan. 2 1907. Third and definitive edition. See G&M 1611, the first separate edition of 1859, consisting of 108 pages, and very similar in appearance to Notes on Nursing. ?The little book, revolutionary in character, set the seal on Miss Nightingale?s authority on the subject of hospitals, and gave a new direction to their construction? (Sir James Paget in 1859). For this third edition, Miss Nightingale wrote in the preface that it had been ?necessary to rewrite the whole of it, and to make so many additions to the matter that it is in reality a new book.? The new edition caused The Lancet to say of it in 1864 that ?no one has studied the great subject with which this important book deals so thoroughly as its authoress.? Bishop & Goldie, Bio-bibliography, 101.