Books/Writings
Florence Nightingale
1820 – 1910
English

Nurse, medical reformer. Working as a nurse among British forces during the Crimean War, she protested against the horrible sanitation and inhuman medical care that awaited the sick or wounded. This launched her on a career of improving nursing and medical care that eventually made her one of the most celebrated and most admired persons of her time.

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