Nurse on Call

Informationen zum Autor Edith Cotterill was born in Tipton, Staffordshire, during a Zeppelin raid in 1916. She joined the nursing profession in 1934, working at Standon Orthopaedic Hospital and Margaret General and District Hospital, and married a sailor in the Royal Navy in 1940. After the birth of her two daughters, she returned to nursing as a district nurse back in Tipton. She died in 1997. Klappentext As for the fur coat, I shuddered to think ...'Training in a hospital in the 1930s, Edith Cotterill's long hours on the wards included encouraging leeches to attach to patients (a task much harder than you might think) and the disposal in the furnace of amputated limbs. Zusammenfassung As for the fur coat, I shuddered to think ...'Training in a hospital in the 1930s, Edith Cotterill's long hours on the wards included encouraging leeches to attach to patients (a task much harder than you might think) and the disposal in the furnace of amputated limbs.

Product details

• Authors: E Cotterill, Edith Cotterill
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9780091937560
• ISBN: 978-0-09-193756-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Nursing, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, c 1950 to c 1959, C 1945 To C 1960