The wounded from the battle-plain In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors, Lo! In that house of misery, A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering ...

John Vincent reports on a touching tribute to The Lady With the Lamp, who transformed nursing during the Crimean War.

Florence Nightingale is remembered for showing ... ideas about better ways to look after sick people, like nurses washing their hands and keeping hospitals clean. She said the very first ...