Comments on: Florence Nightingale Museum in London http://blogginginparis.com/2008/04/28/florence-nightingale-museum-in-london/ The way I was, the way I am Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: kenju http://blogginginparis.com/2008/04/28/florence-nightingale-museum-in-london/#comment-19164 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:37:44 +0000 http://blogginginparis.wordpress.com/?p=1185#comment-19164 I’m glad I wasn’t born into their family…LOL
Thanks for the interesting lesson, Claude.

]]> By: autolycus http://blogginginparis.com/2008/04/28/florence-nightingale-museum-in-london/#comment-19163 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:07:49 +0000 http://blogginginparis.wordpress.com/?p=1185#comment-19163 Her other great claim to fame is that she was the first person to apply statistics as we know it today. Her great innovation was not so much in nursing as such (she wasn’t the only one) or in systematic nurse education, as what we now call “evidence-based medicine”. No-one before her had demonstrated with hard figures and graphics and charts that soldiers were dying far more from disease caused by poor hygiene than from wounds or in battle.

Do they have the recording of her voice that’s in the British Library?

]]> By: Betty http://blogginginparis.com/2008/04/28/florence-nightingale-museum-in-london/#comment-19161 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:54:56 +0000 http://blogginginparis.wordpress.com/?p=1185#comment-19161 I’ll bet she was glad she was born in Florence. lol

]]> By: Sara http://blogginginparis.com/2008/04/28/florence-nightingale-museum-in-london/#comment-19158 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:15:14 +0000 http://blogginginparis.wordpress.com/?p=1185#comment-19158 Oh, I would love to see this too! One of my favorite mystery series features a 19th century English nurse, Hester Latterly, who has been inspired by Nightingale. The series is by Anne Perry. Hester has learned her skills firsthand at the Crimean War, but when she returns, has to fight against the society’s notion of nurses as slatternly ignorant people who only clean up after the doctors. Also against the doctors, who often do not recognize her expertise!

]]> By: wildstorm http://blogginginparis.com/2008/04/28/florence-nightingale-museum-in-london/#comment-19156 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:54:19 +0000 http://blogginginparis.wordpress.com/?p=1185#comment-19156 Great post and one week before National Nurses Week in the US.

]]> By: Kay Dennison http://blogginginparis.com/2008/04/28/florence-nightingale-museum-in-london/#comment-19155 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:48:45 +0000 http://blogginginparis.wordpress.com/?p=1185#comment-19155 I’m with you, Claude. I find women who followed their dreams despite society’s conventions fascinating, too. Maybe it’s the rebel in my soul.

]]> By: sablonneuse http://blogginginparis.com/2008/04/28/florence-nightingale-museum-in-london/#comment-19154 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:06:16 +0000 http://blogginginparis.wordpress.com/?p=1185#comment-19154 That’s another thing I’ve learned from your blog. I remember reading the story of Florence Nightingale in ‘Girl’ comic when I was a child.
It explained why she was called Florence but her sister was referred to as ‘Parthe’ so I assumed it was short for parthenon and that she’d been born in Athens.

]]>