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write summary. This is a brief review of the career of a woman who nearly 100 years ago opened

the eyes of the world to the new science of nursing. We know her as Florence Nightingale,

but the s

oldiers she was butter known as the Angle of Crimea of simply as the Lady of the

Lamp

Florenece 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 woman, 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 centers of

misery, suffering and in to many cases, dirty

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 Kaiserwerth in Germany. For

two years she studied and worked under rigorous conditions but instead of being

discouraged, She wrote her mother, This is life! I wish for no other world but.” 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 bu

t in the military hospitals. In fact, over 400 out of every

thousand in hospitals were dying. Sydney Herbert, British Secretary at War and friend of

the Nightiangles, was at a loss as to just what to do until he thought of Florence. And she,

in turn, Saw t

his 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

withher 38 nureses just after the Battle of Balaklava​

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