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Florence Nightingale
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1950
- Pages
- Pages 615
The wounded of the Crimea lay at Scutari in beds that ran for miles down the barrack hospital corridors, dying of cholera and dysentery and neglect rather than of anything the Russians had done to them. Into that stench walked the woman England would spend a century sentimentalising as the Lady with the Lamp, and Cecil Woodham-Smith's achievement is to take the lamp away.
On February 7th, 1837, God spoke to me and called me to His service.
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