Volume intended to provide nursing students with instruction in chemistry. The volume's content conveys the concepts from inorganic, organic, analytical, biological, and physical chemistry most applicable to a nurse-in-training. The author attempts to bridge students' exposure to chemical principles with practical experience by incorporating medical references and materials into the curriculum.

The work's author, Irene Koechig ( -1975), was an instructor in Biological Chemistry and Microbiology at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Nursing. Koechig received a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in 1911 and a master’s degree in Chemistry in 1912. Koechig taught until the mid-1950s.

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