[MURAKAMI SHUNKICHI, (EDITED BY)]. 村上俊吉編輯.

赤十字社看護法起源. [Sekijujisha kangofo kigen].
[The Origin of Nursing by the Red Cross].

大阪. [Osaka]. 村上俊吉. [Murakami Shunkichi]. 明治28 [ 1895]. Stock ID #171267

22pp, 19.5 x 13.8cm, colour pictorial upper cover, very good copy.

Written during the Sino-Japanese War at the time when Japanese Red Cross nurses were deployed to the battle fields for the first time, this 1895 booklet featuring a Japanese soldier and a nurse on its cover, was printed just two days before the end of Sino-Japanese War.

The Japanese Red Cross was first established as Hakuaisha in 1877 and renamed as the Japanese Red Cross in 1887, following the ratification by the Japanese government of the Geneva Convention in 1887. This booklet gives the organisation's history and is a translation of an essay written by an American author named Atkinson (first name not given). As well as the origin of the Red Cross it also details it's origin, principles and provides details of some famous nurses including Florence Nightingale.

The timing of this booklet's publication is interesting as it was due to the Sino-Japanese War that the Japanese public learned about the Red Cross nurses for the first time.

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