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 ...

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 ...