Excerpt from Chemistry for Nurses The teaching of chemistry to nurses is a new thing, but the development of medicine has made it inevitable. Some knowledge of the fundamental conceptions of chemistry is as indispensable as anatomy in the modern treatment of disease. In deed it puzzles one to understand how, in the past, Without chemical instruction, nurses have made any sense at all of much that was taught them in materia medica, physiology, and diet cooking. How rapidly this Opinion is gaining adherents is shown by the responses to an inquiry sent by the author to the examining boards of thirty-two states of the Union; in twenty-two states, the answers showed, questions in chemistry formed part bf the examination for registered nurses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.