I don't know if this surprises you, but it surprised me.
We think of Florence Nightingale as a mid-19th century figure because of her rise to fame in the Crimean War. Yet she lived to the age of 90 and did not die until 1910.
I don't know if this surprises you, but it surprised me.
We think of Florence Nightingale as a mid-19th century figure because of her rise to fame in the Crimean War. Yet she lived to the age of 90 and did not die until 1910.
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Although she changed the character of nursing, she was not alone. Mary Seacole worked close to and on the battlefields in Crimea while FN was working in Scutari, a sea voyage away.
She does seem to have done quite a lot to discredit Mary Seacole and certainly saw her as a competitor.
That said FN's greatest contribution was in public health statistics and the graphical represntation of statistics. A number of the charts we take for granted these days were first published in her public health works. However, that is not nearly so romnatic as wandering through wards with a lamp.
She was also the first female member of the Order of Merit.
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