"NURSING OF DISEASES OF THE EYE."

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 3, 1 July 1923, Page 123

" NURSING OF DISEASES OF THE EYE."

Jessie Elms,

(By

, A.R.E.C.)

This little book, which is described as a " Simple Treatise for Nurses," is written by the matron of the Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton, and published by the Scientific Press, Ltd. In New Zealand we have no special Eye Hospitals, and the training of a nurse in the care of eye cases is, in some of the smaller hospitals especially, not very much emphasised. The instruction conveyed in this little book in a simple and practical way should therefore be of great use to both probationers and qualified nurses. The various diseases of the eye and accidents affecting the sight are clearly de-

scribed, and the appropriate treatment shortly given with methods of application. The book is illustrated by instruments used in operations on the eye. It can be recommended to all nurse-training schools and individual nurses,, and is of moderate price — 2/(5.

Another small book -sent by the Scientific Press is "Skin Diseases: Their Nursing and General Management.," by G. Norman Meachen, M.D. Chapter I opens with the remark that cases of skin disease arc not popular among nurses, and proceeds to explain the probable source of this feeling, which the author does not consider is in any way fear of infection or contagion. He certainly proceeds in this little book to make the subject vastly interesting, and to show how much nurses may do to alleviate sufferers from the various forms of skin d'sease. The book is one which should be very useful to nurses, and should be added to the reference libraries of the nurses' homes. It is published at the small price of 3/6.