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Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
Juana de Dios Machado Alipás de Wrightington, also known as Jaunita Machado, Juana Ridington or Juana Machado (8 March 1814 – 24 December 1901) was an Alta California pioneer and nurse known as the Florence Nightingale of San Diego. [1] She was a nurse and midwife, and translator, despite being illiterate, during the Mexican-American War. [2]
Nightingale and Stanley's friendship suffered [2] but Nightingale soon promoted Stewart. [1] In 1856 Florence Nightingale believed she would soon die so she told her supporter General Storks that if she did, then Stewart should take over her duties. Later she wrote of Stewart in glowing terms.
She was known as the "Florence Nightingale of America". [24] She was also known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" [14] [25] after she came to the aid of the overwhelmed surgeon on duty following the battle of Cedar Mountain in Northern Virginia in August 1862. She arrived at a field hospital at midnight with a large number of supplies to help ...
In 1859 she went to London, making contact with Florence Nightingale and Sarah E. Wardroper, senior nurse of St Thomas Hospital. Nightingale said of her that she was "a woman attractive and rich and young and witty; yet a veiled and silent woman, distinguished by no other genius than the divine genius". [citation needed]
The letter by Florence Nightingale (Andrew Matthews/PA) “It is a remarkable find and is completely unspoiled, despite spending the last 140 years in an old scrapbook which belonged to the famed ...
A portrait created of Mrs. Frances Nightingale and her daughter Frances Parthenope and Florence Nightingale. Frances Parthenope Nightingale was born on May 19, 1819 in Naples, Italy, [2] during her parents' honeymoon. Parthenope's birth was a rather traumatic one for both Fanny and Parthe.
"Florence did not want an obituary or anyone including family to know she died," the obituary continues. "That’s because even in death, she wanted those she terrorized to still be living in fear ...