Category: Biographies
The presence of thousands of daughters of Florence Nightingale in the regions devastated by the great world war, and the great service to humanity which they have rendered, have turned the thoughts of many to that other battlefield where the great need of the world for trained...
The presence of thousands of daughters of Florence Nightingale in the regions devastated by the great world war, and the great service to humanity which they have rendered, have...
2. Chapter II.When the Crimean war broke out in 1854, it can easily be imagined that there was no woman in England so well fitted to take charge of the chaotic situation which soon developed...
3. Chapter III.“It may seem a strange principle to enunciate,” wrote Miss Nightingale in 1863, “as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite nece...
4. Chapter IV.Deep as was the desire of Miss Nightingale to institute plans for the training of hospital nurses, her health, after her return from the army service, was so impaired, that to u...