Main entry:

Gibbon, John Murray, 1875-1952.

Title & Author:

Three centuries of Canadian nursing / by John Murray Gibbon ; in collaboration with Mary S. Mathewson.

Publication:

Toronto : Macmillan, 1947.

Description:

xxii, 505 pages : illustrations, portraits

Notes:
Includes index.
Pioneer nursing sisterhoods -- Indian epidemics and handicrafts -- English hospitals compared -- Montreal -- Royal recognition and help -- Quebec again -- The grey nuns come to Montreal -- Hospitals under war conditions -- Under the British regime -- Pioneer maritime hospitals -- Nursing in Loyalist days -- Effects of immigration -- Indian medicine and grey nuns in the West -- United by common danger -- Notable Canadian doctors -- Influence of Florence Nightingale -- Early hospitals on the Pacific coast -- Pre-confederation hospitals -- On the Red River -- Training schools introduced in Canada -- Maritimes and Quebec from 1880-1914 -- Ontario, 1880-1914 -- Manitoba, 1880-1914 -- Saskatchewan -- Alberta up to 1914 -- British Columbia since confederation -- British Columbia interior and coast -- The Victorian Order of Nurses -- Organization of the Victorian Order of Nurses -- North-west Territories, Arctic coast, Hudson Bay and Labrador -- Boer War -- Nursing sisters in War of 1914-1918 [i.e. World War I] -- Public health nursing -- The Canadian Red Cross -- Between the two great wars -- Mental nursing -- Sick children's hospitals -- Nursing in tuberculosis sanatoria -- Indians in Canadian nursing history -- World War II.

Subject:

Nursing Canada History.
Infirmières Canada.
Soins infirmiers Canada Histoire.
Nursing.
History of Nursing
Canada.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Mathewson, Mary S.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 63157
Call No.: ID CAN; ID:85-B8159
Status: Available