for Nurses Ву Amy Elizabeth Pope Graduate of the School of Nursing of the Presbyterian Hospital, San Francisco, Cal. with Anna Maxwell, of “ Practical Nursing" Illustrated G. P. Putnam's Sons NP W59 1916 cop./ PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION CHE material of the first edition of Physics an Chemistry for Nurses has been thoroughly revised with help from Mr. Roy Theodore Nichols of the Science Department of the San Diego High School and author of Syllabus and Laboratory Manual of Household Chemistry to whom my thanks are due. Amy ELIZABETH POPE. iii INSTRUCTION in hospital-housekeeping is gradually attaining a well-deserved place in the curriculum of schools of nursing. Since for nurses to have a proper understanding of methods of cleaning, laundry work, cooking and diet is of insinite value both to the hospital and to the nurses, especially those nurses who wish to prepare for executive positions in hospitals and for social-service work. To provide a foundation for such knowledge, by explaining the principles of the chemical and physical properties upon which the various actions that occur in cleaning, cooking, digestion, metabolism, etc., depend, was one reason for compiling this book. A second purpose was to explain important chemical and physical processes constantly referred to in physiology, materia medica, and the other studies included in the school of nursing curriculum. Also, the book contains many important applications of the chemical and physical processes described to disinfection, cleaning, cooking, and other procedures of interest to nurses. In compiling this work, I have consulted all available books of chemistry and physics published within recent years, but those which were most frequently referred to are mentioned in the bibliography at the end of this volume, one or more of which books on |