Emily Parker, Lecture Notebooks

Collection of lecture notebooks compiled by Emily Parker, believed to be while she was a student at St. James's Hospital Leeds. The notebooks contain diagrams of parts of the body and annotations from Parker's teachers, marking her work. Lectures include the following subjects: hygiene, air and ventilation, water, parasites, bacteriology, first aid, haemorrhage, dietetics, milk, inflammation, ulcers, burns, bandaging, metric system, thermometers, the history of nursing, bed sores, bathing, care and sterilisation of instruments, simple enema and rectal saline, observation of urine, observation of stools, pulse and respirations, observation of sputum and inhalations, splints, counter irritants, x-ray preparations, artificial feeding, lavages, gas and air analgesia, puerperium, the uterus, the ovary, the placenta, symptoms of pregnancy, eclampsia, anatomy and physiology, the circulatory system, blood cells, the lymphatic system, joints, the digestive system, the liver, the urinary system, the nervous system, the reproductive system, ductless glands.

Emily Parker studied to become a nurse at St. James's Hospital and qualified as a nurse in 1946. Parker was admitted a Member of the Royal College of Nursing that same year, and then trained to become a midwife, qualifying in 1948. She married in 1954, taking her husband's surname, Warner.

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