Mary Evelyn Essex Carter, Lecture Notebooks

This material is held atThackray Museum of Medicine

Scope and Content

Two training notebooks compiled by Mary Evelyn Essex Carter. Subjects include hospital etiquette, application of opium and belladonna, using baths to treat patients, implementation of charts and charting, types of cough, how to prevent bedsores, joints or articulations, rigor mortis, nervous tissue, nursing and feeding sick children, bronchitis, the liver, the kidneys, Supna-Renal Capsules, urine testing, poisons, scarlet fever, eye diseases.

Administrative / Biographical History

Carter trained at St. Mary's Hospital, Armley, Leeds in 1922-1923. The collection consists of her nurse training notebooks.

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