Cours de Mèdecine cahier, 1905

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Summary

Creator:
Collomb, Joséphine, creator
Abstract:
Joséphine Collomb was a nursing student in 1905 at the Maison-êcole d'infirmières privées, founded by Léonie Chaptal in 1905 with a class size of 24 students, in the Plaisance quarter of Paris. Collection comprises a nursing manuscript notebook (179 pages) maintained in French by Joséphine Collomb during her studies at the Maison-êcole d'infirmières privées. There are 175 pages of notes and 4 pages listing medical instruments. Topics of the notes include microbes, sterilization, operating in the countryside, a nurse's duties, suturing, dressing, antiseptics, dislocation, setting limbs, contusions, burns, epistaxis, blood disorders, hypodermic injections, morphine, caffeine and its uses, ether, serotherapy, fevers, cauterizing, prophylaxis for cholera, measles, typhoid, and tuberculosis, with an explanation of causes and treatments. The volume includes a color map of France with a table of Départements.
Extent:
0.6 Linear Feet (1 item)
Language:
Materials in French
Research Center:
Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Collections
Collection ID:
RL.11489

Background

Scope and content:

Collection comprises a nursing manuscript notebook (179 pages) maintained in French by Joséphine Collomb during her studies at the Maison-êcole d'infirmières privées. There are 175 pages of notes and 4 pages listing medical instruments. Topics of the notes include microbes, sterilization, operating in the countryside, a nurse's duties, suturing, dressing, antiseptics, dislocation, setting limbs, contusions, burns, epistaxis, blood disorders, hypodermic injections, morphine, caffeine and its uses, ether, serotherapy, fevers, cauterizing, prophylaxis for cholera, measles, typhoid, and tuberculosis, with an explanation of causes and treatments. The volume includes a color map of France with a table of Départements. Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections.

Biographical / historical:

Joséphine Collomb was a nursing student in 1905 at the Maison-êcole d'infirmières privées, founded by Léonie Chaptal in 1905 with a class size of 24 students, in the Plaisance quarter of Paris.

Acquisition information:
The Cours de Mèdecine Cahier were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2017.
Processing information:

Processed by Alice Poffinberger, June, 2017

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2017-0083

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:
Nursing -- France
Nursing -- France -- History -- 20th century
Nursing -- Practice -- France
Nursing -- Study and teaching -- France
Education, Nursing.
Names:
Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Collections (Duke University)
Collomb, Joséphine

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