Presented by request to the Secretary of State for War. Notes on matters affecting the health efficiency and hospital administration of the British Army founded chiefly on the experience of the later war.

Subsidiary notes as to the introduction of female nursing into military hospitals in peace and in war. Pastor Fliedner, embracing the support and care of a hospital, infant and industrial schools, and a female penitentiary. The Institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, for the practical training of deaconesses, under the direction of the Rev. 1995: What if they had listened to Florence?: an essay in contrafactus. Manchester, U.K., Manchester University Press. ‘I have done my duty’: Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854–56. Florence Nightingale and the libraries of the British Army. Florence Nightingale and the nursing legacy. But I know it and often think about it (31 December 1879).īaly, M.E. The world does not know all this or think about it. There was a great deal of romantic feeling about you 23 years ago when you returned home from the Crimea and now you work on in silence, and nobody knows how many lives are saved by your nurses in hospitals how many thousand soldiers are now alive owing to your forethought and diligence how many natives of India in this generation and in generations to come have been preserved from famine and oppression and the load of debt by the energy of a sick lady who can scarcely rise from her bed. A letter written to her by Benjamin Jowett should stand as her epitaph: It would seem fair to judge Florence Nightingale's contribution to education by the practical effect which her reforms had. Florence Nightingale once quoted from an address on education delivered at the Universities of St Andrew's and Glasgow, which perfectly reflected her own standpoint: ‘ education is to teach men not to know, but to do’ (Nightingale, 1873, p.

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