This is a brief revicw of the career of a woman vo nearly 100 years ago opened the eyes of the world to the new scicnce of nursing. We know her as Florence Nightingale, but to the soldiers she was better known as the Angel of Crimea or simply as the Lady of the Lamp. Florence Nightingale was born 125 years ago in Florence, Italy. Unlike so many of our other pioneers, she was the daughter of wealthy English parents and reared more or less in luxury, As a young wonman, she became somewhat of a problem to her parents. They saw she was not happy in being just a young lady of fashion She had what was to them, an unhealthy and unnatural interest in Nursing. Nursing in those days WAs far from what we know today. A hundred years ago the majority of hospitals were centres of misery, suflering and in too many cases, dirt.) But, despite all this, Florence still wanted to be a nurse, and finally persuaded her parents to let her attend the Deaconess Training School at Kaiser Werth in Germany, For two years she studied and worked under rigorous conditions but instead of being discouraged, she wrote her mother, "This is Lifet I wish for no other world but this." About this time, the Crimean War between England and Russia broke out and a vicious battle was fought on the little Black Sea Peninsula. The British were victorious but the joy at home was short lived. Resorts began to filter back to London of the terrific loss of life -not so much on the battlefield but in the military hospitals. In fact, over 400 out of every thousand in the hospitals were dying. Sidney Herbert, British Secretary at War and friend of the Nightingales, was at a loss as to just what to do until he thought of Florence. And she, in turn, saw this as just the chance for which she had been waiting. So, after carefully collecting a large store of supplies, she arrived at the battlefront in November 1854 with her 38 nurses just after the Battle of Balaklava. summary write of the passage
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This is a brief revicw of the career of a woman vo nearly 100 years ago opened the eyes of the world to the new scicnce of nursing. We know her as Florence Nightingale, but to the soldiers she was better known as the Angel of Crimea or simply as the Lady of the Lamp. Florence Nightingale was born 125 years ago in Florence, Italy. Unlike so many of our other pioneers, she was the daughter of wealthy English parents and reared more or less in luxury, As a young wonman, she became somewhat of a problem to her parents. They saw she was not happy in being just a young lady of fashion She had what was to them, an unhealthy and unnatural interest in Nursing. Nursing in those days WAs far from what we know today. A hundred years ago the majority of hospitals were centres of misery, suflering and in too many cases, dirt.) But, despite all this, Florence still wanted to be a nurse, and finally persuaded her parents to let her attend the Deaconess Training School at Kaiser Werth in Germany, For two years she studied and worked under rigorous conditions but instead of being discouraged, she wrote her mother, "This is Lifet I wish for no other world but this." About this time, the Crimean War between England and Russia broke out and a vicious battle was fought on the little Black Sea Peninsula. The British were victorious but the joy at home was short lived. Resorts began to filter back to London of the terrific loss of life -not so much on the battlefield but in the military hospitals. In fact, over 400 out of every thousand in the hospitals were dying. Sidney Herbert, British Secretary at War and friend of the Nightingales, was at a loss as to just what to do until he thought of Florence. And she, in turn, saw this as just the chance for which she had been waiting. So, after carefully collecting a large store of supplies, she arrived at the battlefront in November 1854 with her 38 nurses just after the Battle of Balaklava. summary write of the passageExplanation:
This is a brief revicw of the career of a woman vo nearly 100 years ago opened the eyes of the world to the new scicnce of nursing. We know her as Florence Nightingale, but to the soldiers she was better known as the Angel of Crimea or simply as the Lady of the Lamp. Florence Nightingale was born 125 years ago in Florence, Italy. Unlike so many of our other pioneers, she was the daughter of wealthy English parents and reared more or less in luxury, As a young wonman, she became somewhat of a problem to her parents. They saw she was not happy in being just a young lady of fashion She had what was to them, an unhealthy and unnatural interest in Nursing. Nursing in those days WAs far from what we know today. A hundred years ago the majority of hospitals were centres of misery, suflering and in too many cases, dirt.) But, despite all this, Florence still wanted to be a nurse, and finally persuaded her parents to let her attend the Deaconess Training School at Kaiser Werth in Germany, For two years she studied and worked under rigorous conditions but instead of being discouraged, she wrote her mother, "This is Lifet I wish for no other world but this." About this time, the Crimean War between England and Russia broke out and a vicious battle was fought on the little Black Sea Peninsula. The British were victorious but the joy at home was short lived. Resorts began to filter back to London of the terrific loss of life -not so much on the battlefield but in the military hospitals. In fact, over 400 out of every thousand in the hospitals were dying. Sidney Herbert, British Secretary at War and friend of the Nightingales, was at a loss as to just what to do until he thought of Florence. And she, in turn, saw this as just the chance for which she had been waiting. So, after carefully collecting a large store of supplies, she arrived at the battlefront in November 1854 with her 38 nurses just after the Battle of Balaklava. summary write of the passage