1920's Medicine and Health | "The Wealthiest Nation in the World: Its Mothers and Children"

Journal article

By: Frontier Nursing Service

Date: March 1929

Source: Frontier Nursing Service. "The Wealthiest Nation in the World: Its Mothers and Children." Quarterly Bulletin 4, no. 4, March 1929, 1–3.

About the Organization: Mary Breckinridge (1881–1965) created the Quarterly Bulletin of the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925 at the behest of the board of directors of the group, then called the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies. As the group's official publication, the Quarterly Bulletin carried items of interest to its members and to nurses.

Introduction

Nursing services were generally not available before the middle of the nineteenth century. The American Civil War (1861–1865) and the Crimean War (1853–1856) in Europe, though, changed the concept of medicine to include nurses. But while nurses were generally available to...