Albert Charles Challen · Public domain · Source
Person1805 – 1881
Mary Seacole
Jamaican nurse who, refused as an army nurse in the Crimean War, opened her own lodging near Balaklava and cared for soldiers close to the front
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Nightingale led 38 nurses to the British army hospital at Scutari in the Crimean War; making her rounds each night with a lamp, she became “the Lady with the Lamp”.
People who appear alongside
- Florence Nightingale1820 – 1910
British nurse who reformed sanitation in the military hospitals of the Crimean War, cutting soldiers’ death rates, and laid the foundations of modern nursing and its training
Sidney Herbert1810 – 1861British politician who, as Secretary at War during the Crimean War, sent Nightingale to Scutari and afterwards led army health reform with her
Themes this person appears in
- Florence Nightingale1820 – 1910
The woman who trained as a nurse against her family’s wishes, tended soldiers by lamplight in the hospitals of the Crimean War, changed sanitation with statistics and made nursing a profession