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Nightingale, Florence
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or A famous philanthropic nurse, born at Florence, of wealthy English parentage; at the age of 22 entered the institution of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth to be trained as a nurse, and afterwards studied the methods of nursing and hospital management with the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul, Paris; after thoroughly reorganising Harley Street Hospital, London, she in 1854 volunteered to organise a staff of nurses to tend the wounded soldiers in the Crimea; arriving at Scutari on the eve of Inkermann she, during the terrible winter of 1854-55, ministered with unwearied devotion to the suffering soldiers; on her return in 1856 she, with public support, established a training college for nurses at St. Thomas's and at King's College Hospital; she is author of "Notes on Nursing," "Notes on Hospitals," &c.; b . in 1820.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Nightingale, Florence'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/n/nightingale-florence.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
