Florence Nightingale
With the honor of 建筑风格“ TheLady with the Lamp”,Florence Nightingale was the founder of
modern nursing and a famous English social reformer. She devoted all her life to nursing
career and made outstanding contributions to the knowledge and improvement of public
health. On August 13, 1910, she pasd away in London forever.
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on May 12, 1820 and she was name
d after the city of her birth. Nightingale?s family was very wealthy and belonged to elite so
cial circles. However, Nightingale preferred to look after poor people rather than dance wi
th people from upper class. In 1837, feeling god was calling her to do some work, Nightin
gale began to develop an interest in nursing. She received no support from her family at t
hat time, becau her parents considered nursing to be inappropriate to a woman of her
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class. They expected her to marry a good man and lived an upper class 恋爱故事woman?s life. In
1844, Nightingale decided to work in hospital, which her family furiously resisted. Despite谈恋爱英语
有关春节的古诗the inten rage and pressure from her family, she still learned some nursing skills by he
rlf sneakily. In 1851, she went to Kairwerth in Germany for three months? nursing trai
ning. This enabled her to become superintendent of a hospital for gentlewomen in Harley
Street.
In 1853, the Crimean War broke out and it is soon reported that there were desperat
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ely lacking medical facilities, drugs and even nurs at the front. Sidney Herbert, the war
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minister, had already known Nightingale and asked her to organize a corps of nurs to t
end the wounded soldiers. On 21 October 1854, she and the staff of 38 women volunteer
nurs were nt to the Crimea. Although the conditions there were very horrid, Nighting
ale and her staff did not flinch and confronted it bravely. Nightingale herlf spent every
walking minute taking good care of every patient. In the evening, she took a lamp with he
r to minister to patient after patient. The soldiers were moved deeply and they called her
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