CRIMEAN RELIC: Wooden chest depicting Scutari Hospital scenes during the Crimean War and close-up of Florence Nightingale, with lamp, tending patient. For the vermin-ridden hospital lacked even ...

This date is significant because it is also the 200-year anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, who has been dubbed as the ‘mother of modern nursing’ and ‘the lady with the lamp.’ The ...

When you think of Florence Nightingale, you probably imagine a nurse with a lamp, comforting soldiers. Indeed, Florence is considered the mother of modern nursing. But she also made serious ...