Nightingale Florence

Nightingale, Florence (b. 1820), devoted her advantages to philanthropy. She studied schools, hospitals, and reformatories for some time. After reorganising the governesses' sanatorium in Harley Street, she organised and supervised the ladies who volunteered as nurses in the Crimea. The public testimonial subscribed in recognition of her most able and devoted services, amounting to £50,000, was expended at her request on the "Nightingale Home" for training nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital. She has been a leading authority on sanitation and therapeutics, and in 1859 published Notes on Hospitals and in 1860 Notes on Nursing.