Volume I. Convalescence and the Modern World
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Interpersonal Caregiving vs. Scientific Medicine
1. J. Roberton, General Remarks on the Health of English Manufacturers: And on the Need which Exists for the Establishment of Convalescents' Retreats as Subservient to the Medical Charities of our Large Towns (London: J. Ridgway, 1831).
2. F. Nightingale, ‘Convalescence’, in Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes (London: Harrison, 1861), pp. 81–83.
3. C. Ryan, Convalescent Cookery: A Family Handbook (London: Chatto and Windus, 1881).
4. E. M. Worsnop, The Nurse’s Handbook of Cookery: A Help in Sickness and Convalescence (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1897).
5. A. Worthington Winthrop, ‘Bill of Fare for Convalescents’, in Diet in Illness and Convalescence (New York: Harper, 1899), pp. 243–246.
6. B. Clugston, ‘West of Scotland Convalescent Sea-Side Homes, Dunoon: Being a Short Account of Their Present Position and Capabilities of Extension and Use’, in Rules For the Constitution and Bye-Laws of the Glasgow Convalescent Home (Glasgow: Maclure and Macdonald, 1865–1871), pp. 3–24.
Part 2. Convalescent Homes and Philanthropic Care
7. F. Nightingale, ‘Convalescent Hospitals’, in Notes on Hospitals, 3rd edn, (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1863), pp. 107–116.
8. H. C. Burdett, Cottage Hospitals: General, Fever, and Convalescent, 2nd edn (London: Churchill, 1880).
9. R. Hillhouse, Reminiscences: Byegone Years of the West of Scotland Convalescent Seaside Homes, Dunoon (Glasgow: N.P., [1909?])
10. ‘Getting Better’, All The Year Round, 3:61 (29 January 1870), pp. 204–208.
11. ‘Convalescent Homes’, Ragged School Union Magazine (November 1872), pp. 241–47.
12. F. Arnold, ‘Convalescent Homes and Hospitals’, Good Words, 15 (December 1874), pp. 659–64.
13. ‘Convalescent Hospitals’, All The Year Round, 24:587 (28 February 1880), pp. 325–31.
14. ‘Convalescent Hospitals’, British Medical Journal, 2:203 (17 November 1860), pp. 900–01.
15. ‘Convalescents in the North-West of London’, British Medical Journal, 2:359 (16 November 1867), pp. 455–456.
16. ‘The Function of Convalescent Homes’, British Medical Journal, 2:615 (1872), p. 417.
17. ‘Opening of the Bristol Jubilee Convalescent Home’, British Medical Journal, 2:2029 (1899), pp. 1439–40.
18. Convalescent Home Architecture
‘Convalescent Home for Children: St. Leonards on Sea’, Building News (London: James Akerman, 1881)
‘Jewish Convalescent Home, South Norwood’ (n.p., 1885)
‘The Railwaymen’s Convalescent Home’, Great Western Railway Company (London: Great Western Railway Company, 1905)
Part 3: Convalescence and Mental Health
3.1 Religious Devotionals
19. A. T. Gilbert, ‘Letter II’ and ‘Letter XI’ in The Convalescent: Twelve Letters on Recovery from Sickness (London: Jackson and Walford, 1839), pp. 8–14, 93–102.
20. R. Milman, ‘Dangers of Recovery, IV. V.’ in Convalescence: Thoughts for Those Who Are Recovering From Sickness (London: Whittaker, 1865) pp. 72–77.
21. P. Maurice, ‘Convalescence: Its Pleasures and its Trials’ in Sickness: Its Trials and Blessings (London: Rivingtons, 1868), pp. 271–282.
22. J. E. Hopkins, Sickbed Vows, and How to Keep them: A Book for Convalescents (London: J. Nisbet, 1869).
3.2 Asylums and Convalescence
23. H. Hawkins, ‘A Plea for Convalescent Homes in Connection with Asylums for the Insane Poor’, Journal of Mental Science, 17:77 (April 1871), pp. 107–16
24. H. Hawkins, ‘After Care’, Journal of Mental Science, 25:111 (October 1879), pp. 358–67.
3.3 Convalescent Autobiography
25. C. Lamb, ‘The Convalescent’, in The Last Essays of Elia: Being A Sequel to Essays Published Under That Name (London: Edward Moxon, 1833), pp. 70–77.
26. W. Collins, ‘Laid Up in Lodgings’, in My Miscellanies (London: Sampson Low, 1863), pp. 90–134.
27. G. Whyte-Melville, ‘A Week in Bed’, Fraser’s Magazine, 69:411 (March 1864), pp. 327–35.
28. W. E. Henley, ‘Convalescence’, Saturday Review, 44: 1145 (6 October 1877), pp. 417–18.
Bibliography
Index
Volume II. The Opportunities of Invalidism
Acknowledgments
Introduction – volume II
Part 1: Travel and the Invalid
1. H. Matthews, The Diary of an Invalid: Being the Journal of a Tour in Pursuit of Health in Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and France in the Years 1817, 1818 and 1819, (London: John Murray, 1820).
2. J. A. Symonds, ‘Davos in Winter’, Fortnightly Review, 30:139 (July 1878), pp. 74–87.
3. R. L. Stevenson, ‘Health and Mountains’, first published in Pall Mall Gazette (17 Feb. 1881), reprinted in Essays of Travel (London: Chatto and Windus, 1905), pp. 212–216.
4. R. L. Stevenson, ‘The Elements of Discord: Foreign’, A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (London: Cassell and Company, 1892).
5. G. MacDonald, ‘An Invalid’s Winter in Algeria’, Good Words 5 (1864), pp. 793–99.
6. ‘A Voyage to Australia for Health’, Macmillan’s Magazine 49 (1884), pp. 412–18.
7. H. Blake, ‘Try the Bahamas’, Fortnightly Review 39 (Feb 1886), pp. 174–83.
Part 2: The Working Invalid
8. H. Martineau, ‘Fifth Period: To The Age of Forty-Three’ and ‘Tynemouth From the Sickroom Window,’ in M. W. Chapman (ed.), Autobiography, 3 vols (Boston: James R. Osgood and Co, 1877), vol 1, pp. 439–49, 456–60, 472–82.
9. F. Nightingale, ‘Notes on the Aboriginal Races of Australia’, Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (York, September 1864) (London: N.P., 1865)
10. F. Nightingale, ‘Our Indian Stewardship’, The Nineteenth Century, 14:78 (August 1883), pp. 329–338.
11. C. Darwin, Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–1882. With Original Omissions Restored, ed. Nora Barlow (London: Collins, 1958), pp. 96–116. (Reproduced with permission from John van Wyhe, ed. 2002, The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, at http://darwin-online.org.uk/
Part 3. Fringe Medicines and Invalid Expertise
12. H. Martineau, Letters on Mesmerism, 2nd edn (London: Edward Moxon, 1845).
13. T. M. Greenhow, Medical Report of the Case of Miss H— M— (London: Samuel Highley, 1845).
14. T. M. Greenhow, ‘Termination of the Case of Miss Harriet Martineau.’ The British Medical Journal, vol. 1, no. 850, 1877, pp. 449–50.
15. E. Bulwer-Lytton, ‘Confessions and Observations of a Water Patient’, New Monthly Magazine, 75 (September 1845), pp. 1–16.
16. R Lane, Life at the Water Cure, Or A Month at Malvern: A Diary (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1846).
17. Confessions of a Hypochondriac: Or, the Adventures of a Hypochondriac in Search of Health. By M.R.C.S. (London: Saunders and Otley, 1849), pp. 45-61, 269-310
18. ‘By Her Majesty's Letters Patent: Comfort for Invalids’, in The Lancet General Advertiser (22 March 1856).
19. ‘Ayer's Sarsaparilla: Purifies the Blood, Stimulates the Vital Functions, Restores and Preserves Health, and Infuses New Life and Vigor throughout the Whole System’, (Lowell, Mass.: Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co [1880–89?])
20. ‘All in Search of Health Should Wear Harness' Electropathic Belts: Scientifically Constructed for New Life and Vigor’, (London: Electropathic & Zander Institute, [1890?])
Part 4: The Inner Life of the Invalid
21. H. Martineau, ‘Temper’, in Life in the Sickroom: Essays by an Invalid. (London: Edward Moxon, 1844), pp. 126–145.
22. [F. Townsend], Mutterings and Musings of an Invalid (New York: John S. Taylor, 1851), pp. 9-29.
23. A. B. Ward, ‘The Invalid’s World’, Scribner’s Magazine, 5 (Jan. 1889), pp. 58–73.
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Hosanna Krienke is an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Honors College at the University of Wyoming, USA.






