8vo. Original publisher's black pebbled cloth gilt (hinges broken, a few small chips).

 

FIRST EDITION, second issue, with advertisements on the endpapers, and without the notice "[The right of translation is reserved]" on the title-page. Nightingale "introduced the modern standards of training and esprit de corps, and early grasped the idea that diseases are not 'separate entities, which must exist, like cats and dogs,' but altered conditions, qualitative disturbances of normal physiological processes, through which the patient is passing" (Garrison, History of Medicine, p.773). Norman 1601.