I almost picked Flo hers is an interesting story.

For those that don't know:

1. Most people think of "The lady with the lamp" mopping the brow of a dying soldier and writing a letter home to the family. Whilst that is true the image of the gentle woman isn't.
2. Her character was more accurately like Margaret Thatcher and it had to be the Crimea was no place for shrinking violets and nurses were treated by doctors as joke because they had no formal training.
3. At Scutari she didn't save lives, cholera was rife and she and the rest of the staff didn't know why. Soldiers came in with gunshot wounds and died of disease.
4. She came from a well off family with political connections. She used those connections and especially the Times to highlight the plight of the wounded soldiers and demand a government enquiry.
5. When she got back she elbowed her way on to the commission which for a woman was almost unheard of.
6. At the time doctors didn't understand how disease was transmitted and had some odd ideas. She shared those opinions. During the commission some doctors put forward the revolutionary theory that we now accept about infectious diseases. This I think is why she deserves to be a "great" Flo listened and made the connection with her personal experiences. Then you have the fury of the convert.
7. She established modern nursing in the UK which spread out over the Empire. She made it a respectable profession for middle class women.
8. During the American civil war she advised the Union army on medical matters and this led to the founding of modern nursing there where she is as revered and well known as here.
9. She became an icon to the suffragette movement which was ironic as she like Margaret Thatcher didn't have a very high opinion of women.

In summary modern nursing across the world owes a lot to her and all because a woman realised she was wrong.

Enoch Powell
Florence Nightingale

I can hear him saying it now, YT.

read his biography last year.
used to change his underwear 3 x a day, often had a booze cabinet in his car boot but sadly died destitute.

I almost picked Flo hers is an interesting story.

For those that don't know:

1. Most people think of "The lady with the lamp" mopping the brow of a dying soldier and writing a letter home to the family. Whilst that is true the image of the gentle woman isn't.
2. Her character was more accurately like Margaret Thatcher and it had to be the Crimea was no place for shrinking violets and nurses were treated by doctors as joke because they had no formal training.
3. At Scutari she didn't save lives, cholera was rife and she and the rest of the staff didn't know why. Soldiers came in with gunshot wounds and died of disease.
4. She came from a well off family with political connections. She used those connections and especially the Times to highlight the plight of the wounded soldiers and demand a government enquiry.
5. When she got back she elbowed her way on to the commission which for a woman was almost unheard of.
6. At the time doctors didn't understand how disease was transmitted and had some odd ideas. She shared those opinions. During the commission some doctors put forward the revolutionary theory that we now accept about infectious diseases. This I think is why she deserves to be a "great" Flo listened and made the connection with her personal experiences. Then you have the fury of the convert.
7. She established modern nursing in the UK which spread out over the Empire. She made it a respectable profession for middle class women.
8. During the American civil war she advised the Union army on medical matters and this led to the founding of modern nursing there where she is as revered and well known as here.
9. She became an icon to the suffragette movement which was ironic as she like Margaret Thatcher didn't have a very high opinion of women.

In summary modern nursing across the world owes a lot to her and all because a woman realised she was wrong.