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Florence Nightingale
The Lady with the Lamp
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1820 - 1910
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Family
‣ Born in Florence, Italy
‣ British parents: William and Frances Nightingale
‣ Older sister: Parthenope
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Education
‣ Educated by her father
‣ Liked algebra and statistics
‣ Very religious
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Nursing studies‣ Angered her parents
‣ Studied in Egypt and Germany
‣ Worked as superintendent at the Institution for the Care of Sick Gentlewomen, London
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Crimean war‣ A conflict between
Russia and British, French, Ottoman alliance
‣ Fought over control of Crimean peninsula
‣ Allies won, but experienced a lot of casualties
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Crimean peninsula
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Bad conditions‣ 42 out of 100 soldiers
died in hospital
‣ Bad sanitary caused diseases like typhus, typhoid, cholera and dysentery
‣ Medicines were in short supply, hygiene was being neglected
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Improvements‣ Arranged better
supplies of food and medicine
‣ Sanitary conditions were improved, and soldiers received better care
‣ Death rate dropped to only 2 persons out of 100
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The Lady with the Lamp
Lo! in that house of miseryA lady with a lamp I seePass through the glimmering gloom,And flit from room to room.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1857
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Later career
‣ Established Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifing
‣ Wrote a book “Notes on Nursing”
‣ Advocated for the improvement of care and conditions in hospitals
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1820 - 1910
