Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, was born 200 years ago.
About:
Florence (1820 – 1910) was born to a wealthy English family in Florence, Italy, and named after the city.
She became famous as a result of her innovations in nursing care at Scutari hospital in modern-day Istanbul, where she treated British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War of 1854, in which British, French and Ottoman forces fought the Russian Empire.
Every night she would make rounds through the camps, checking on each soldier, a practice that saw her nicknamed the “Lady with the Lamp”.
She used statistics as a way of proving the effectiveness of different interventions. She produced her famous “rose” diagrams, which demonstrated the high proportion of deaths caused by disease as opposed to battle wounds.
As a result of this work, she became the first woman admitted to the London Statistical Society, in 1858.
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